Re: gcc 5 & 6 & others already out of date?

[Florian Weimer]

* Mark Brown:

>> The enterprise distributions have toolchain modules or toolsets that you
>> can install, all nicely integrated.  You'd probably consider those
>> versions too new. 8-/   I expect it's mostly an education issue, raising
>> awareness of what's available from vendors.   (glibc versions are a
>> different matter, but I don't think dropping support for historic
>> versions on build hosts is on the table, so that should be relevant.)
>
> Yeah, I found the ones for SLES easily enough but not the ones for RHEL
> or Ubuntu.  Perfectly prepared to believe they're there though, it does
> seem like sometihng users might want.

For what it's worth, it's devtoolset-11-gcc or gcc-toolset-11-gcc,
depending on the OS version.  The “11” is the GCC version, new versions
become available in the fall, about half a year after the upstream
release.  Old versions remain installable (even in parallel), but drop
out of official support fairly quickly (at least compared to our usual
support timelines).

Thanks,
Florian