Fedora 24 Linux to Ship with GCC 6 by Default, Most Packages Need to be Rebuilt

Posted by hanuca on Dec 25, 2015 4:16 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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It has been a while since we've seen any interesting system-wide changes proposed for the upcoming Fedora 24 Linux operating system, but today we can report that the OS will switch to GCC 6 by default.

Switching the GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) package in Fedora 24 Linux to the 6.x.y branch means that the Fedora developers need to rebuild all the distribution's packages. Alternatively, they can choose to optionally rebuild only various important packages and rebuild the entire archive for the next major release, Fedora 25.

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