Hi Andrew

> Last week this appeared in the SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS list:

Ah, for some reason I wasn't on the -users list, am now

> Has anyone tried with the newer compilers in the softwarecollections repo ?
> Not sure how safe it would be to use a different compiler for a kernel
> module but softwarecollections does give access to gcc/g++ v4.9.2
> v5.3.1, v6.3.1 and v7.2.1 ...

I've not tried with the software collections, but a locally built gcc
7.3.0 builds a beegfs 7.0 kernel module that seems to work fine. YMMV.

Cheers
Toby
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