<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 20, 2018, at 7:37 AM, Brian Cain <<a href="mailto:brian.cain@gmail.com" class="">brian.cain@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 4:36 PM JF Bastien via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" class="">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 19, 2018, at 11:27 AM, via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-1030752565566366325Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="m_-1030752565566366325WordSection1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">So, there was agreement that the default gcc for recent-but-not-latest distros was not important? That is, it's okay to require people to upgrade their tools in order to work with LLVM?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">In my team's case, a lot of us are on Ubuntu 16.04 which comes with gcc 5.4, which is not gcc 7. And currently for Windows we're on MSVC 2015.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">I suppose by March we can persuade our IT to upgrade all the people and bots to Ubuntu 18.04 (gcc 7.3?) and deploy MSVC 2017. But it's something we need to plan for.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">(I suppose I should thank the Google folks for being such slugs<span class="m_-1030752565566366325Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">J</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><span class="m_-1030752565566366325Apple-converted-space"> </span>about being ready to switch, because it will give us time to get things organized for ourselves.)</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The discussion from folks using Linux as well as from Linux vendors was that distros which come with older versions of GCC also provide easy ways to install newer versions of GCC, without upgrading the distro.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Does it help if we build llvm+clang release tarballs for more Linux distros? If so, I'm willing to help out there. </div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Maybe? Nobody chimed in saying that they were bootstrapping LLVM and would have liked an easy download instead. Not that there isn’t need! It simply wasn’t voiced in the rather small audience.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>