Fedora 22 Alpha released [LWN.net]

Fedora 22 Alpha released

Posted Mar 13, 2015 7:00 UTC (Fri) by bandrami (guest, #94229)
In reply to: Fedora 22 Alpha released by zenor
Parent article: Fedora 22 Alpha released

> The rest of the system is bleeding edge, too: gcc-5

I guess people don't remember the epic fiasco that was the alleged "gcc 2.96"?

There is no gcc-5. It doesn't exist yet. RH is shipping a patchset that may or may not be similar to what GNU ends up releasing as gcc 5.

Fedora 22 Alpha released

Posted Mar 13, 2015 15:29 UTC (Fri) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262) [Link]

There is also no Fedora 22, it also doesn't exist yet. So what's the problem with F22 Alpha tracking upstream GCC 5?

Also, "GNU" doesn't release GCC, the GCC project does, and "RH" doesn't release Fedora, the Fedora project does, and the people responsible for GCC in Fedora are also core GCC maintainers.

Fedora 22 Alpha released

Posted Mar 13, 2015 18:45 UTC (Fri) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link] (1 responses)

> There is no gcc-5. It doesn't exist yet. RH is shipping a patchset that may or may not be similar to what GNU ends up releasing as gcc 5.

It isn't the first time they do this in Fedora. They time the release so that the official release of that GCC version happens before the Fedora release.

I just checked the GCC status page (https://gcc.gnu.org/); it says GCC 5.0 is at "regression fixes and docs only" stage (https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2015-01/msg00156.html). Therefore, whatever releases with Fedora 22 is going to be "similar to what GNU ends up releasing as gcc 5", even if Fedora releases first.

Fedora 22 Alpha released

Posted Mar 13, 2015 18:59 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

In addition to that, regressions in GCC and glibc are often found and fixed because of introduction of upstream tracking snapshots in the development branch and the mass rebuilds that typically follow. Fedora 22 doesn't have a GCC mass rebuild because of the short schedule but ad-hoc builds have been serving a similar purpose for this cycle.