[SOLVED]Mageia 9 and GCC version

[isadora]

Hi,

I'm wondering why Mageia 9 has GCC 12 when GCC 13.1 is a stable release. I also don't understand why GNU released GCC 12 after releasing GCC 13.

Does any one know why this so?
Thanks

[morgano]

GCC 12.1 released a year ago, then 12.2, then 12.3 a few days ago.
GCC 13 .1 released just a few days ago. We try to be stable.

12.3 is considered fresh
https://betanews.com/2023/05/26/mageia- ... on-review/

[sturmvogel]

By simply reading a little bit at the GCC homepage you will understand how it works. There are atm 4 supported stable releases (10.x, 11.x, 12.x, 13.x) plus 1 dev version (14.x) which are developed and supported in parrallel.
Dev timeline:
https://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html#timeline

Supported stable releases:
https://gcc.gnu.org/

Changing to a newer compiler needs a complete rebuild of all packages of a distribution. Thats why you stick to a compiler version until the support end or for other critical reasons. As MGA 9 will be released shortly it makes no sense to switch to a new compiler as GCC 12.x is fully supported for the next years.
Rolling release distries like openSUSE Tumbleweed follow the latest upstream development and use the latest compiler versions. This leads to situations that you need to update between 2000 - x000 packages on your systems. This happens between 1 and 2 times a year. The outcry of noobs who use rolling release distries but lack the understanding what a compiler version upgrade means is always big in such cases...

[adhefe]

Ok,

Thanks for the replies.

[isadora]

Please adhefe, don't forget to mark the topic [SOLVED].
You can do so, by editing the subject/title in the first message in this topic.
Write [SOLVED] to the left of subject/title, thanks ahead.

[adhefe]

Ok Isadora,
I forgot to mark it solved.
Someone else did it anyway

Thanks again

[Germ]

It was me.