Re: ‘core-updates’ is back!

[Ludovic Courtès]

Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:

> Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 09:10:42PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
>>> Since we're on the topic, I would like to switch to GCC 6 or 7 soon...
>>> Are we agile enough to use the very latest GCC by default yet? :-)
>>
>> That would be nice to at least move to GCC 6. My aarch64 board is
>> currently idle, I can see how well it works on my machine.
>
> The main issue with GCC 6 is that we need to port the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
> patches again.  But we might want to do that even if switching to 7.

I think we should upgrade.  My preference would be GCC 6, which I think
may trigger fewer build failures than GCC 7, but maybe GCC 7 would be
fine.

Are you sure the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH thing isn’t already in GCC 6?

Thanks,
Ludo’.