Hi Jan,

On Jan 17, 2013, at 16:12 , Jan Kundrát wrote:

> Hi,
> I'd like to get a decent support for the C++11 language on SL6. RH ships the devtoolset [1] package for just this purpose; the PUIAS repo [2] has the RPMs. However, I am not much familiar with the PUIAS, so I would like to ask here for references -- is that a repository which is known to be "good"?

I've cherry-picked packages from their repos and have been happy with those. There's always some trust involved when you install software from yet another source, but I don't consider this one higher risk than the others we draw from.

Back then when the EL clones had problems with the rebuild of nfs-utils in 6.1, PUIAS was bug-compatible with the others including SL ;-)

> Any plans to make devtools available as a part of the SL?

Connie said she was working on releasing them a while ago, but it seems that hasn't happened. Connie, any news?

I also managed to rebuild them myself, but the procedure was a bit odd and I would much rather use packages rebuilt by someone more experienced with that. Next time a user asks for them, and they're not available from SL, I'd probably pick them from PUIAS now.

Best regards,
	Stephan


> With kind regards,
> Jan
> 
> [1] https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Developer_Toolset/
> [2] http://springdale.math.ias.edu/data/puias/DevToolset/6.3/

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