• Russel Winder (14/14) Jan 11 2014 I think there was a flurry of activity about this in 2011 and probably
• Dejan Lekic (23/34) Jan 15 2014 The story is (as expected) a little bit long...
• Ellery Newcomer (3/21) Jan 25 2014 When I made my gdc rpms I had it build the entire gcc and then

Russel Winder <russel winder.org.uk> writes:

I think there was a flurry of activity about this in 2011 and probably
more recently, but…

GDC appears not to be available on Fedora 20. Fedora is GCC 4.8 but has
no GDC, Debian is also 4.8 and has GDC. So is there anywhere to get an
RPM of the 4.8 version of GDC for Fedora 20?

If there is great, if not and someone has a spec file, I have some
machine cycles I can use to create an RPM (yes I do know that GCC takes
about 200 hours to compile).

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Dejan Lekic <dejan.lekic gmail.com> writes:

Russel Winder wrote:

 I think there was a flurry of activity about this in 2011 and probably
 more recently, but…
 
 GDC appears not to be available on Fedora 20. Fedora is GCC 4.8 but has
 no GDC, Debian is also 4.8 and has GDC. So is there anywhere to get an
 RPM of the 4.8 version of GDC for Fedora 20?
 
 If there is great, if not and someone has a spec file, I have some
 machine cycles I can use to create an RPM (yes I do know that GCC takes
 about 200 hours to compile).
 

The story is (as expected) a little bit long...

We have few alternatives here:

1) We wait for GDC to be inside GCC. In the long run this will be the best 
solution, and I think everybody agrees with me on this. :)

2) As Iain noted, I have made GCC SPEC which basically builds what I call 
"system GCC" - a set of GCC packages that are installed in /usr . This package 
is for those brave enough to replace GCC RPMs with my GCC RPMs. I use this for 
years, however I did not have time to work on 4.8 RPMs. It should not take long 
for me to provide SPEC for 4.8.x, but what will take long is to provide support 
for various Fedora versions (check pkgs.fedoraproject.org , search for gcc). I 
do not have time for this, as I have more important projects I work on, that is 
why I never announced availability of Fedora GCC SPEC file which builds GDC as 
well.

3) This is the easiest way of providing GDC in any RPM-based distro - make a 
minimal GCC with GDC build, and install it in /opt/gdc . I could actually 
maintain this, as it requires minimal work that does not depend on whatever is 
going on in Fedora/EPEL world.
I could probably do such RPM in a day.

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"Ellery Newcomer" <ellery-newcomer utulsa.edu> writes:

On Wednesday, 15 January 2014 at 18:34:41 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
 Russel Winder wrote:

 2) As Iain noted, I have made GCC SPEC which basically builds 
 what I call
 "system GCC" - a set of GCC packages that are installed in /usr 
 . This package
 is for those brave enough to replace GCC RPMs with my GCC RPMs. 
 I use this for
 years, however I did not have time to work on 4.8 RPMs. It 
 should not take long
 for me to provide SPEC for 4.8.x, but what will take long is to 
 provide support
 for various Fedora versions (check pkgs.fedoraproject.org , 
 search for gcc). I
 do not have time for this, as I have more important projects I 
 work on, that is
 why I never announced availability of Fedora GCC SPEC file 
 which builds GDC as
 well.

When I made my gdc rpms I had it build the entire gcc and then 
just pull out the ~ 10 new files and install those on top of gcc