Re: GCC 7

[Irek Szcześniak <irek@irkos.org>]

Thanks, Tomás, for your email.

I should have written before that I don't want the GCC 7 to be a 
system-wide compiler, along with libraries and some other dependencies. 
I need GCC 7 to compile my own code (C++17) that I run.  I don't need to 
distribute the binaries.

Yes, GCC 7 is not in the backports, so it's not an option.  There might 
be some Debian packages with GCC 7, but I worry about making a 
FrankenDebian, and the ensuing dependency and linking problems.

Thanks for pointing out pbuilder, I think I'll give it a try.  I also 
might want to try virtual containers, but it seems like an overkill.

I might later drop an email to the debian-gcc mailing list.


Best,
Irek

On 13.06.2018 11:21, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:04:25AM +0200, Irek Szcześniak wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need GCC 7 on my Debian Stretch.  Previously I upgraded my Stretch
> > to Testing (Buster), but I ran to some problems, and reinstalled the
> > system back to Stretch.
> >
> > Could someone offer an advice on how to get a working GCC 7 on
> > Debian Stretch, without upgrading to Testing?
>
> Backports would be a place to go. There seem to be others in your
> situation:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2018/04/msg00137.html
>
> (but I haven't seen an answer to this request in that mailing
> list).
>
> Perhaps pinging debian-gcc list is a good idea.
>
> Alternatively, if you just want to build for testing, some
> pbuilder (chroot) setup might help, but then your program
> might want to link to newer core libraries...
>
> Cheers
> - -- tomás
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