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Mention "software collections"

Open TheDcoder opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Hi,

I was trying to compile something and found that the system version of GCC is severely outdated because it comes from the Cent OS 7 repository.

What I didn't know and wasn't mentioned in the manual is that Uberspace already had "software collections" installed along with several collections:

$ scl --list
devtoolset-7
devtoolset-9
llvm-toolset-7
php74
php81
php82
php83

The devtoolset-9 collection had a new enough version of GCC which let me compile my code, but I was not aware of its existence until I did my own research and found software collections.

It would be of immense help if it was mentioned in the manual, perhaps in the page for GCC.

TheDcoder avatar Aug 09 '24 02:08 TheDcoder