FS#58489 - [blender] Why build with gcc6?

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Initrider (initrider) - Monday, 07 May 2018, 21:38 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Friday, 11 May 2018, 20:24 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
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Details

Hello. Why are you still using gcc6 to build blender? https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/blender/ I tried to build it with GCC 7.3.1 and everything is working. Moreover Blender can be built by latest clang too.
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Closed by  Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Friday, 11 May 2018, 20:24 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  blender uses gcc 8.1 for building everything but cuda stuff where nvcc now uses gcc54 as the host compiler.

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