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Re: ICE failures with old GCC versions on the buildbots


From: Mike Miller
Subject: Re: ICE failures with old GCC versions on the buildbots
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:20:30 -0700
User-agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28)

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 16:05:12 -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> I'm seeing internal compiler failures with GCC 4.9 and 5 on the buildbots:

I have my own daily build running on Ubuntu 14.04 with GCC 4.8 and I'm
not seeing any such errors.

> It may be this bug:
> 
>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=888422

Maybe, are your buildbots Debian unstable with older compilers installed
on them?

If so, maybe a more appropriate way to test would be with containerized
distributions that were meant to work with GCC 4.8 or 4.9? A Debian 8
container for example?

> I can investigate and see whether there is a workaround, but I'm wondering
> whether we should care about supporting builds with these compilers.  GCC 5
> was first released approximately 3 years ago.

I don't mind dropping support for older compilers for Octave 5, but it
would be nice to at least ensure that Octave 4.4 works with GCC 4.8.

That may have nothing to do with whether you keep certain buildbot
configurations running.

-- 
mike

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