I am working on a nasty machine that is slow and sporadically freezes, which makes it unable to compile anything that takes a bit of effort. I would like to try GCC's development version, but it's not possible to build it locally. Do you know of any (unofficial) respository that offers i686 packages of GCC 5?

By the way, would there be any problems with system libs if a development version was installed (in place of the stable one, which is 4.9.1)?

IIRC the version of libstdc++ is tied to the GCC version so you'll need that too. It is possible to install multiple versions of gcc side by side ( e.g. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gcc46/ ) But I would like to suggest two alternatives. * Have you tried using clang instead (available in "extra")? * You could also compile the binaries on a different machine (be careful to compile for the right architecture) and copy them to your i686 machine

You are right about libstdc++. I believe it's the same for all the other libraries that the gcc-libs package carries. About Clang, I use it already, but it is always better to test with several compilers. However, some features I use have only been introduced recently (in GCC). I cannot cross compile because that's the only machine I have. I will definitely give the openSUSE's OBS a look. Thank you! If I manage to do something useful, I'll report back. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> wrote:

# kalrish.antrax@gmail.com / 2014-12-02 14:40:50 +0100:

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I would like to try GCC's development version, but it's not possible to build it locally. Do you know of any (unofficial) respository that offers i686 packages of GCC 5?

you can try and build the packages in https://build.opensuse.org/, it's got some support for ArchLinux/PKGBUILD. IRC support channel: #opensuse-buildservice on freenode.

-- roman