On 05/28/2018 09:09 PM, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote:

On 29/05/18 11:00, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:

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Hey,

I would like to move gcc7 (based on the latest version 7 commit of gcc [0]) into [community] because of cuda 9.2 and in return drop gcc54.

I tried to make it work with current gcc but to no avail. In earlier releases of cuda the incompatibilities could be patched with header hacks but not this time. I tested the whole setup with cuda 9.2 locally and it seems to work fine.

I just want to get somebody's ok on this as apparently not everyone is stoked about having yet another old version of gcc in there for some time.

Sven

[0] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/gcc&... .

OK to add gcc7 given it will drop gcc54.

Agreed, we're moving in a net positive direction. We still have two versions of gcc, but at least the old version is a *newer* old version.

(We could name it gcc-cuda if that makes people happier?)

On 05/29/2018 03:56 PM, Anatol Pomozov wrote:

gcc-cuda will probably introduce a lot of confusion. Let's use standard naming practice for the old versioned packages (i.e. gcc7 or gcc-7).

Sorry, that was a joke. :D

I think gcc7 is fine, if anyone complains tell them it's really gcc-cuda in disguise. It's not like we've never provided old things for packages which need them before, so it's just a cuda thing which is fine to have.