On 5 Nov, Matthias Seidel wrote: > Hi Don, > > Am 05.11.19 um 19:02 schrieb Don Lewis: >> On 5 Nov, Peter Kovacs wrote: >>> what if we require LLVM as build requirement and build OpenOffice only >>> with LLVM instead of preinstalled gcc? >>> >>> the project provides packages for Windows, Linux (And here RHEL 7.4) and >>> mac. Cygwin offers Version 8.01 >>> >>> Debian offers also LLVM as Version 8. >>> >>> It would just work around the issue we currently face, while increasing >>> the build requirements only by little. >> That's not likely to be helpful. Mixing an application built with LLVM >> with system C++ libraries compiled with gcc is likely to fail. It is >> best to use the same compiler for everything. Also, using a non-default >> compiler would require the user to install the matching C++ runtime >> libraries. >> >> What set me on this quest was trying to build 4.1.7 with gcc on >> FreeBSD/powerpc, where LLVM is not quite ready for prime time. >> >> Either compiler can generally be persuaded to work. In C++98 mode, LLVM >> can use it's regular C++ STL headers, whereas GCC needs to use the boost >> TR1 headers for STL. In C++11 mode, either compiler can use the C++ STL >> headers, but our code isn't quite ready for C++11, and we can't yet make >> the changes for C++11 that are not compatible with the older compilers >> on some platforms. >> >>> We have to drop CentOS6 support completely, as a price, but I think this >>> is already decided. >> Dropping support for CentOS 6 for 4.2.x would be nice for a couple of >> reasons. GCC on CentOS 6 doesn't support C++11, and CentOS 6 is our >> last platform that doesn't have the new gstreamer. But if we don't >> support CentOS 6 for 4.2.x, then we probably need to extend support for >> 4.1.x. > > To my knowledge we build 4.2.x on CentOS 7.
It builds and works fine on CentOS 6 as well. > 4.1.x is still built on CentOS 5. Unfortunately my CentOS 5 VM is trashed and because CentOS 5 is past EOL< it is a PITA to fix. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
