14 DAY TRIAL // On June 16, the openSUSE Project, through Douglas DeMaio, had the great pleasure of announcing that the Tumbleweed version of the openSUSE Linux operating system moved to the 5.x branch of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection).
openSUSE Tumbleweed is the rolling-release version of the acclaimed OpenSuSE Linux distribution, where all the bleeding-edge stuff arrives. Last month, Tumbleweed received attractive new Linux technologies like Linux kernel 4.0 and KDE Plasma 5, but today we witness the implementation of GCC 5 as the default compiler.
This comes as an amazing piece of news for all openSUSE users and developers who were waiting for a new compiler in the Tumbleweed edition of the operating system. Dominique Leuenberger from the openSUSE Gnome team informs users that the latest GNU Compiler Collection was checked on June 16, 2015 as the default compiler.
"GCC 5 made great progress the last week," said Dominique Leuenberger, the Factory master. "We will rebuild more than 8,000 source packages with GCC 5. [...] Thank you to those who have invested their time and efforts to reach this achievement and want to thank the people who will continue to contribute to the follow-on efforts regarding coming none-ring packages, which will still need some work."
All openSUSE Tumbleweed packages will be rebuilt against GCC 5
As expected, the openSUSE developers are now hard at work rebuilding all of the distribution's packages against the GCC 5 compiler, which means that the next snapshot of openSUSE Tumbleweed will include only packages built with GCC 5. Also, the version 5.1.1 of the GCC compiler will be included in the next snapshot.
The next openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot is expected to arrive sometime at the end of this month, which will make the distribution the first rolling-release to have GCC 5 as a default compiler, according to DistroWatch’s package tracker. At the moment of writing this article, Dominique Leuenberger informs us that all packages that are shipped on the openSUSE DVD have been built successfully.