Setting up an environment for a Binary snapshot of gcc

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Jeff,

On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 at 16:52, Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:

> Two related comments.
>
> First, you might try Fedora Rawhide.  Rawhide is the next version of
> Fedora to be released (it is a lot like Debian Sid).  But Fedora releases
> every 6 months (unlike Debian, which takes a couple of years to release).
> With Fedora, you mostly have the latest version of programs, like GCC.
> Rawhide provides GCC 16.0.1 out of the box.  See <
> https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/gcc/gcc/>.
>
Interesting... thanks for that tip.

Second, if you are a free and open source developer, then you can get an
> account on the Compile Farm.  The CFarm provides lots of machines with
> various compilers.  You will be able to find lots of versions of GCC on the
> farm.  See <https://portal.cfarm.net/> and <
> https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm>.  And here is a list of machines
> and architectures: <https://portal.cfarm.net/machines/list/>.
>

I'm the (voluntary) Reviews Editor for the ACCU's CVu magazine ( see [1]
and [2] ) and I'm trying to re-learn C++ by working my way through Bjarne
Stroustrup's current primer, "Programming Principles and Practice Using C++
(3e)". I'll look into Rawhide some time. I've written up a small article on
how to get C++ programmes that use modules to access the C++ Standard
Library to build and run and submitted the draft of the article for
potential publication.

1. https://accu.org/menu-overviews/journals-overview/ and
2. https://accu.org/menu-overviews/reviews-overview/

BW,


Ian

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