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Which packages in particular? I've always found most things to be rather recent...

• mehrdadn 8y ago
  I seem to recall seeing an old GCC (6? 5? I forget) when GCC 8 had already come out.
  • xaduha 8y ago
    https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=gcc&branch=edge https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=gcc&branch=edge
    • mehrdadn 8y ago
      Huh... do I need to configure it to use edge? I seem to recall not seeing it in the package manager.
      • xaduha 8y ago
        You can add channels to /etc/apk/repositories
  • ploxiln 8y ago
    alpine 3.8 (and 3.7) branch have gcc-6.4 which was released in July 2017. For a C compiler, that is absolutely sufficient. You'll find many other packages in the 3.8 release branch are more up-to-date, this is a bit of an exception. This isn't Rust. GCC-6.4 will compile literally any C or C++ project you find (that works with any recent version of GCC), including stuff requiring C++-14 and _most_ of C++-17. Hell, GCC-4.9 (from 2014) is sufficient to compile the latest linux kernel, the latest sqlite3, the latest nginx, the latest of any real significant package.
  • iveqy 8y ago
    That was actually a special case if I understood correctly. gcc 6 dropped support for something needed by something else which prevented it to be upgraded
  • marmaduke 8y ago
    CentOS 7 ships GCC 4.9 and it works fine.
    • snaky 8y ago
      RHEL version numbers are not telling you much. Nobody would be surprised to find some Linux kernel features announced for 4.20 in RedHat kernel 2.6.32-something.