[CentOS-announce] Announcing release for Developer Toolset 4 on CentOS Linux 6 x86_64 SCL

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I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Developer Toolset

4 on CentOS Linux 6 x86_64, delivered via a Software Collection (SCL)

built by the SCLo Special Interest Group

(https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo).

 

QuickStart

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You can get started in three easy steps:

$ sudo yum install centos-release-scl

$ sudo yum install devtoolset-4-toolchain

$ scl enable devtoolset-4 bash

 

At this point you should be able to use gcc and other tools just as a

normal application. Examples of commands run might be:

$ gcc hello.c

$ sudo yum install devtoolset-4-valgrind

$ valgrind ./a.out

$ gdb ./a.out

 

In order to view the individual components included in this collection,

including additional development tools, you can run:

$ sudo yum list devtoolset-4\*

 

About Software Collections

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Software Collections give you the power to build, install, and use

multiple versions of software on the same system, without affecting

system-wide installed packages. Each collection is delivered as a group

of RPMs, with the grouping being done using the name of the collection

as a prefix of all packages that are part of the software collection.

 

The collection devtoolset-4 delivers version 5.2.1 of the GNU Compiler

Collection, GNU Debugger, and other development, debugging, and

performance monitoring tools as RPMs.

 

The SCLo SIG in CentOS

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The Software Collections SIG group is an open community group

co-ordinating the development of the SCL technology, and helping curate

a reference set of collections. In addition to the Developer Toolset

collection being released here, we also build and deliver databases, web

servers, and language stacks including multiple versions of PostgreSQL,

MariaDB, Apache HTTP Server, NodeJS, Ruby, Python and others.

 

Software Collections SIG release was announced at

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2015-October/021446.html

 

You can learn more about Software Collections concepts at:

http://softwarecollections.org

You can find information on the SIG at

https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo ; this includes howto

get involved and help with the effort.

 

We meet every second Wednesday at 16:00 UTC in #centos-devel (ref:

https://www.centos.org/community/calendar), for an informal open forum

open to anyone who might have comments, concerns or wants to get started

with SCL's in CentOS.

 

Enjoy!

 

Honza

SCLo SIG member

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