On Mon, 2020-08-17 at 19:28 -0400, Eric Gervais-Despres wrote: > Has anybody tried (and succeeded) to get gcc 6.3.1 (or devtoolset-6) to > work on CentOS 8?
As far as I can see SCL & devtoolset are not available for CentOS 8 - the toolsets are integrated as part of the main distro, and they are only for newer versions of GCC and not older ones. > > In the Animation and Visual Effect industry, gcc 6.3.1 is still the current > recommended compiler (see www.vfxplatform.com), and is required to build > many plugins. Unfortunately, it is not a "minimum requirement"... It is THE > requirement. > > So I tried to get it from the vault: > -- > sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo= > http://vault.centos.org/7.6.1810/sclo/x86_64/rh/ > sudo dnf install devtoolset-6 > -- > but I get these messages: > -- > Error: > Problem: package devtoolset-6-6.1-1.el7.x86_64 requires > devtoolset-6-runtime, but none of the providers can be installed > > conflicting requests > nothing provides policycoreutils-python needed by > devtoolset-6-runtime-6.1-1.el7.x86_64 > (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to > use not only best candidate packages Yes, you are trying to install a CentOS7 package on CentOS8. It probably won't work. > > > I hate having to install something not officially supported anymore, but > still officially required for many current software. > It depends what it is about GCC v6 you need - you can control the dialect of C that GCC act as using the '-std='. Ultimately though, just download that particular version of GCC and compile/install it, it's not a difficult thing to do and most of it is automated. Strangely though, GNU doesn't seem to think that 6.3.1 exists, the nearest on the GCC downloads is 6.3.0. P. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos