[llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] LLVM C++14/C++17 BoF - Summary

[Brian Cain via llvm-dev]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 4:36 PM JF Bastien via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

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> On Oct 19, 2018, at 11:27 AM, via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> wrote:
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> 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?
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> 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.
> 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.
> (I suppose I should thank the Google folks for being such slugs J about
> being ready to switch, because it will give us time to get things organized
> for ourselves.)
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> 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.
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Does it help if we build llvm+clang release tarballs for more Linux
distros?   If so, I'm willing to help out there.


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