Request: gcc & g++ 8 in MX18

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#1 Post by **Otter** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:25 am

Hi,

Could you please add gcc & g++ 8 to MX18. Its not available in stretch-backports either. Please!

#2 Post by **Otter** » Thu Mar 07, 2019 12:48 pm

Bump! Someone please respond.

#3 Post by **anticapitalista** » Thu Mar 07, 2019 1:22 pm

Not going to happen

#4 Post by **Richard** » Thu Mar 07, 2019 1:32 pm

Imagine it may come with Buster...

#5 Post by **Stevo** » Thu Mar 07, 2019 5:21 pm

Do you really need it, such as for programming with it, or is there another reason? In that case, you actually might have an "XY problem".

#6 Post by **Richard** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 12:00 am

https://packages.debian.org/buster/g++-8

#7 Post by **asqwerth** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 12:40 am

Mayhap the OP is trying to install some package from a foreign (possibly Ubuntu) repo or PPA, which isn't recommended?

#8 Post by **dphn** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 2:04 am

For a while I have included Debian Buster repo in my MX 18 test system and I have purged gcc-6/g++-6.

apt replaced this with gcc-7/g++-7 from Buster Repo automatically, not gcc-8/g++-8 but this is available too.

Note: It's an experiment. This system runs stable so far but it isn't recommandable to do such things on a productive machine. Some users would say it is a "FrankenDebian".

#9 Post by **Otter** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 8:33 am

First of all, I guess everyone thinks that I'm new to Linux since I have very few posts here & also maybe because of the goofy signature. But I've been using Linux for the past decade and still I'm not going to change the signature. I just love it. Gratitude to MX forum maintainers for still having those legacy smileys. I miss them in other forums.

anticapitalista wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2019 1:22 pm Not going to happen
Richard wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2019 1:32 pm Imagine it may come with Buster...

Sad to hear that.

Stevo wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2019 5:21 pm Do you really need it, such as for programming with it, or is there another reason? In that case, you actually might have an "XY problem".

Actually this. Need it for C++14. I wonder if any other devs actually use MX or a distro based on Debian stable. I guess lack of recent packages is the reason they just install ubuntu & call it a day.

asqwerth wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2019 12:40 am Mayhap the OP is trying to install some package from a foreign (possibly Ubuntu) repo or PPA, which isn't recommended?

Nope.

dphn wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2019 2:04 am For a while I have included Debian Buster repo in my MX 18 test system and I have purged gcc-6/g++-6.

apt replaced this with gcc-7/g++-7 from Buster Repo automatically, not gcc-8/g++-8 but this is available too.

Note: It's an experiment. This system runs stable so far but it isn't recommandable to do such things on a productive machine. Some users would say it is a "FrankenDebian".

FrankenDebian, yes, I've also been doing the same since MX17. Was using gcc-7 with MX17 and now need gcc-8.

Just made a thread to know if it would be officially back ported to prevent FrankenDebian.

#10 Post by **Stevo** » Fri Mar 08, 2019 9:49 pm

The stock gcc-6 in MX 17/18 supports the c++-14 standard--I build packages that need that standard quite frequently. Did you mean c++-17?

An existing option for a compiler that supports a newer standard would be the latest clang compiler, and we have 7.0 backported to the main repo.

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