Rebuilding Fedora Under GCC 6 Has Uncovered An Assortment Of Problems | Linux Today

Rebuilding Fedora Under GCC 6 Has Uncovered An Assortment Of Problems

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Michael Larabel
Feb 23, 2016

The past few days Red Hat / Fedora developers have been rebuilding Fedora Rawhide packages with the GCC 6 compiler. Out of the 17,741 packages, 577 packages ran into issues relating to GCC 6 (~3% of the packages).

Having problems with 577 packages due to the new version of the GNU Compiler Collection is much more than usual with Red Hat’s Marek Polacek pointing out last year with the GCC 5 rebuild they had problems with half as many — 236 problematic packages.

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Michael Larabel

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