On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 12:16:05PM +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > >It appears that some tests fail for one of my package (gmp-ecm) on one > >architecture (s390x): > >after some investigation, it appears that it is a compiler issue: building > >with gcc-6 (instead of gcc-5) > >causes no issue. So now I want to impose the gcc-6 to d/rules ? What is the > >best way to do so ? > > > Debug and fix gcc-5 is preferred, otherwise something like > add gcc-6 to build dependencies (and g++-6 if needed)
As far as I know, the plan is to switch to gcc-6 by default for stretch: https://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2016/01/msg00100.html so while identifying and backporting the fix to gcc-5 would be nice, I'd recommend not putting too much effort there. -- An imaginary friend squared is a real enemy.