First Ubuntu Artful Aardvark test rebuilds (and upcoming GCC 7 transition)

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The first test rebuild of Artful Aardvark was started on July 6 for all

architectures, all components (main component and seeded packages finished,

unseeded packages still building).

 

For arm64 and armhf the gcc-6 packages are based on the Linaro 6-2017.06

snapshot.

 

Results (please also look at the superseded builds) can be found at

 

http://qa.ubuntuwire.org/ftbfs/rebuilds/test-rebuild-20170706-artful.html

 

The test rebuild uses binutils, gcc-6, gcc-7 and linux packages currently still

in the proposed release pocket, which can also be found separately in the PPA

 

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

 

Additional build failures for packages in artful-proposed (not yet in artful)

can be found at http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/ftbfs/

 

Please help fixing the build failures.

 

 

Another test rebuild using GCC 7 as the default can be found at

http://qa.ubuntuwire.org/ftbfs/rebuilds/test-rebuild-20170706-gcc7-artful.html

 

For arm64 and armhf the gcc-7 packages are based on the Linaro 7-2017.06

snapshot.

 

The test rebuild uses gcc-defaults, binutils, gcc-6, gcc-7 and linux packages

currently still in the proposed release pocket, which can also be found

separately in the PPA

 

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/test

 

We are planning the transition to GCC 7 for late July / August. Please help

fixing the build issues using the update GCC.

 

Information about transitioning to GCC 7 can be found at:

 

* https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/porting_to.html

* https://wiki.debian.org/GCC7

* Please forward patches for GCC 7 build failures to the bug reports

already filed in Debian (see the above wiki page for the bug list).

 

Matthias

 

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