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   Alan Coopersmith (alanc@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 09:10:00 JST Alan Coopersmith

   The GCC 10 packages were also flagged for removal on upgrade to #OracleSolaris 11.4.66 (we already ship GCC versions 11, 12, & 13 to replace them).

   Users of the gccgo compiler need to note that the removal of GCC 10 packages will also remove the libgo.so.16 library used by Go programs compiled with GCC 10, and that they thus will need to recompile any such programs with a newer version of gccgo before upgrading to SRU 66.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 09:09:59 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @alanc gcc-10 already going away feels weird when gcc being at version 10 surprised a lot of us, including software (wow 2 digits, oh no lexical comparison doesn't works anymore :( ).
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     Alan Coopersmith (alanc@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 09:12:13 JST Alan Coopersmith

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan yeah, gcc's annual version bump hasn't pushed things as high as Firefox's new major version every 6 weeks scheme, but is still far faster than things went in the gcc 2.x and 3.x eras

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 09:13:35 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @alanc Makes me realize that it also means getting a linux 10.x and oh no things breaking due to this is going to be a disaster.
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     Alan Coopersmith (alanc@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 09:21:22 JST Alan Coopersmith

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan yeah, but linux 10.x probably almost a decade away still, since Linux tends to go a few years between major version bumps.

     But then seeing how many things broke from the zlib 1.2.x -> 1.3 version change doesn't leave me with a lot of hope that everyone will be prepared in time, and of course our experience when Solaris 10 changed uname to 5.10 might have left a few scars...

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 09:28:34 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @alanc Well Linux 10.x is probably closer than 2038, and yeah I regularly see version comparison breaking things, might even have wrote 1+ patch to fix configure scripts for zlib 1.3 but for libraries it's at least something you can rollback without rebooting.
     
     And yeah, I remember reading some stories about the 5.10 change, which is probably why linux 10.x doesn't looks great.