On 10/22/20 9:28 AM, Petr Pisar wrote:
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 09:20:28AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
> On 10/22/20 8:27 AM, Petr Pisar wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 08:10:02AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
>>> I do think we need to make it easier for a Fedora package maintainer to
>>> get the gcc-11 bits so that if there's a need to debug a bad interaction
>>> between gcc-11 and a package they can.
>>>
>> gcc-11 was built into a side tag. Each build target has a repository in Koji.
>> This one is
>>
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http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/repos/eln-build-side-32479/latest/$base...;.
>>
>> If you worry about ELN-Fedora compatibility, create a new side tag intheriting
>> from f34 and rebuilt gcc-11 there. Or build a module that anyone interested
>> can enable on his system.
> Sorry, I wasn't terribly clear.
>
>
> So last year when I was testing gcc-10 against Fedora one of the
> recurring issues we had was that if I needed input from a package
> maintainer on an issue flagged by gcc-10 we had no good way for the
> package maintainer to get gcc-10 rpms to do any investigation on their own.
>
>
> With the gcc-11 side tag build and eventual landing in ELN that issue
> should be much better. So if I need to sync with a package maintainer
> on an issue, we have a way to make that happen.
>
I see. This year it's indeed more accessible. E.g. I've just installed it
from the side tag repository to my Rawhide and verifired that perl builds fine
with GCC 11 :)
:-)
I already verified that, repeatedly. On Sept 7th, Sept 20th, Oct 1st
and Oct 15th. I figure the next build of perl with gcc-11 in my tester
should land in about a week ;-)
Jeff