Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: toolchain@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] gcc-8 will go stable soon (~in a week)
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 23:28:05
Message-Id: 20190218232748.70e4d8a0@sf
1 Hello world!
2
3 toolchain@ plans to start stabilizing next major gcc version
4 (gcc-8) in about a week at:
5 https://bugs.gentoo.org/678254
6
7 Current target is =sys-devel/gcc-8.2.0-r6.
8
9 If you think your bug should be absolutely addressed before
10 that happens please add it as a blocker.
11
12 Also feel free to cc toolchain@ explicitly on tricky build failures
13 without clear path to resolution. We will figure something out together.
14
15 gcc-8 was very uneventful WRT known breakages so far:
16 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Toolchain#gcc-8
17 (I started it late though)
18
19 gcc porting tracker still has 3 unresoved bugs:
20 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=gcc-8
21
22 - https://bugs.gentoo.org/655206: x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.99.917_p20180214 doesn't build with GCC-8.1
23 - https://bugs.gentoo.org/659610: app-misc/screen-4.6.2 fails with gcc-8.1.0-r3
24 - https://bugs.gentoo.org/664296: net-p2p/retroshare-0.6.4 : /.../stl_tree.h:452:21: error: static assertion failed: comparison object must be invocable with two arguments of key type
25
26 Please give them some love :)
27
28 Thanks!
29
30 --
31
32 Sergei