Request: gcc & g++ 8 in MX18

[JayM]

G++ 8.3.0-6 is in Buster's repo. Maybe it could be backported?

[Stevo]

gcc-7 and Buster's gcc-8 was backported to our experimental repo a few months ago, and in fact I successfully used it to backport telegram-desktop 1.7.0 to MX 17/18 a couple days ago. I made a few announcements, but never got any answer: http://mxrepo.com/mx/experimental/pool/test/g/gcc-8/

You have to export the compiler versions in the environment to use it instead of Stretch's default gcc-6:

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export CC=gcc-8
export CXX=g++-8
export CPP=cpp-8
export LD=gcc-8

(if required)
export ASM=gcc-8

[Stevo]

You can enable the experimental repo by adding this line to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list:

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deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/experimental/ stretch test \

Using Featherpad to do so:

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sudo fpad /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list

Then updating in MX updater or on the command line:

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sudo apt-get update

gcc-8, g++-8, and cpp-8 can now be installed.