Re: [PATCH experiment 00/16] C++20 coroutine backend

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 06:27:57PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 3/15/22 10:32, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > > So NetBSD is our biggest constraint on requiring GCC 10
> > > 
> > > Do we care about the BSDs since they have newer compilers (including 
> > > gcc10)
> > > available in pkgsrc?  If you go by the base system, then RHEL8 has 8.5.0 
> > > and
> > > newer version are only available with packages such as gcc-toolset-10 and
> > > gcc-toolset-11.
> > 
> > I mention NetBSD because we had an explicit request to support
> > 7.4 GCC from there, as it was the current system compiler.
> 
> Thanks, do you have a reference?  I would like to understand the reason for
> that (adding Werner too).

It was commit 3830df5f83b9b52d9496763ce1a50afb9231c998

> For RHEL8, considering that the switch would be several months away anyway,
> I don't think it would be an issue to require AppStream toolset packages.
> It's unlikely that RHEL8 would rebase QEMU in 2023 and beyond.

It isn't so much RHEL8 rebases I'm thinking of wrt the policy, but
rather our corporate contributors who can be constrained by annoying
corporate policies to only use RHEL-8 for their work.

With regards,
Daniel
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