Re: [Audacity-devel] Can we use a more current compiler for Travis?

[James C. <cr...@in...>]

Travis is proving very useful for us. I don't want to break it and 
particularly not right now close to release.  It's using gcc 4.6.3.

If you want to experiment *in your own branch* with clang++ and 
CXXFLAGS=-g -std=c++11
That could be a way forward.  Or add

|sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gcc-4.8 g++-4.8 sudo 
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.8 60 
--slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.8 |

to the start of travis.yaml.



Also perhaps worth experimenting with
http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/migrating-from-legacy/?utm_source=legacy-notice&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=legacy-upgrade


So I'm not averse to C++11, but I am to losing ability to easily check 
linux builds on Travis.  And of course whatever is done also has to work 
on Macs.  Audacity MUST be easily compilable on a standard Ubuntu 14.04 
LTS.  That's gcc 4.8.2.


--James.



On 02/09/2015 16:28, Paul Licameli wrote:
> Are the gcc options used in Travis even the same as for production 
> builds on Linux?
>
> I think this is an outdated and not quite standards-compliant compiler 
> (even for 2003) that annoys me flagging things as errors that it 
> should not.
>
> Meanwhile the compiler I am using on Visual Studio has the cool new 
> C++11 features I wish I could use, but good luck getting them by Travis.
>
> PRL
>
>