This is what software collections is for: https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/ https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/ http://developerblog.redhat.com/tag/d

This is what software collections is for: https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/ https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/ http://developerblog.redhat.com/tag/developer-toolset/ http://developerblog.redhat.com/tag/developer-toolset/ Redhat knows they messed up regarding newer stuff in RHEL5-6. That shouldn't ever happen again thanks to scl, which makes it quite trivial to get super new stuff in supported RHEL instances.