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openSUSE Tumbleweed Needs Your Help to Make GCC 6 the Default Compiler

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Marius Nestor
May 23, 2016

Migrating to a new default compiler is the hardest task for a Linux kernel-based operating system, as almost all the pre-installed packages need to be rebuilt using the new compiler, and package maintainers have a hard time during this transition. And it looks like openSUSE Tumbleweed developers have run into some trouble today, May 23, 2016, as Dominique Leuenberger asks the community to help test the packages that fail to build with GCC 6, or that need special attention.
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