On 12/12/2018 16:55, jrmarsha via Boost wrote:
Wouldn't dropping gcc 4.6 drop support for RHEL 7.x? That might cause some off-the-wall problems for some users. Can anyone speak to this with any more knowledge?
RedHat and CentOS 7.x and 6.x have devtoolset-7, and now devtoolset-8 since a few weeks back, which provide GCC 7.x and 8.x, respectively. They are binary compatible with the toolchain and libstdc++ of the base system, and so can be used as a drop-in replacement. I've been using the older devtoolset-4 and newer devtoolset-7 for years, and I'll be upgrading to devtoolset-8 in the next few weeks (not yet available via yum for CentOS, but will be in the next few days I expect). In consequence, dropping GCC 4.x does not preclude using a new Boost on RHEL. Regards, Roger