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Removing Guix from Debian

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yjftsjthsd-h ◴[02 Sep 25 16:46 UTC] No.45105621[source]▶
> For example, he has had to maintain various Guile dependencies, and deal with the fact that Guix uses ""fairly old"" GCC versions whereas Debian usually ships the latest GCC version available for a given release.

It's odd that guix is both rolling release but also uses older GCC versions; usually I'd expect those from very different cultures.

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pxc ◴[02 Sep 25 17:19 UTC] No.45106091[source]▶
It seems that it doesn't build with releases of GCC from April 2025 onward, at least with default settings, because it doesn't build with the C23/C++23 standards.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1096790

Maybe such changes are more substantial than the typical differences between GCC releases?

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1. vincent-manis ◴[02 Sep 25 20:33 UTC] No.45108639[source]▶
I recently custom-built Guile for my Arch system, and found that it won't build with GCC 15, but will with 14, which is the only other version in the Arch repository. I think that the Guile maintainers will need to get busy fixing the incompatibilities in question, before GCC 16 appears.