Package Details: gcc17 17.0.0.snapshot20261004-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/gcc17.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: gcc17
Description: GNU Compiler Collection 17 C/C++ development snapshot for parallel compiler validation
Upstream URL: https://gcc.gnu.org
Licenses: GFDL-1.3-or-later, GPL-3.0-or-later WITH GCC-exception-3.1
Submitter: RubenKelevra
Maintainer: RubenKelevra
Last Packager: RubenKelevra
Votes: 0
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2026-10-03 11:07 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-10-07 05:17 (UTC)

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RubenKelevra commented on 2026-10-04 22:24 (UTC)

@FabioLolix

one issue is the missing dependency autogen, which did not cause a fail in my build environment, because I accidentally masked it.

One test (c-c++-common/cpp/has-include-1.c) has been reported upstream as giving spurious test failures[1]. I'll ignore it until the proposed patch is merged.

And the two other tests were green on my run with gdb 17.2, but arch updated in the meantime to gdb18.1 - which is what you used. So I'll have a look at them before I release a new version.

[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-testresults%2540gcc.gnu.org/msg76945.html

RubenKelevra commented on 2026-10-04 21:42 (UTC)

Renaming it to gcc17-snapshot would be an improvement

I'm not familiar with this naming suffix. Is this documented somewhere?

Thanks for the report, I'll have a look why my builds worked fine in chroot and your's not.

FabioLolix commented on 2026-10-04 21:15 (UTC)

Renaming it to gcc17-snapshot would be an improvement

The package fails in check() for me both with devtools and makepkg (devtools log https://github.com/FabioLolix/buildlogs/commit/3c0890bf788966e0c1045719b5672381b230ee29)

RubenKelevra commented on 2026-10-03 18:03 (UTC)

Hi Fabio,

the main difference is that gcc17 is meant to be installed alongside the normal system GCC, which is why it's following the $package$mainversionnumber scheme of ArchLinux in naming. It's also limited to the C/C++ parts.

gcc-snapshot on the other hand conflicts and replaces the system gcc compiler toolchain completely.

Since I need to test software with gcc17, I thought others might have the same need and wanted to provide a package for this, without having to replace the whole system compiler.

The description already calls it a "development snapshot" and the version includes the snapshot date, so I'm not quite sure how this could be read as a final release.

If you have a recommendation for making that distinction clearer in the package metadata, I'm happy to adjust it.

FabioLolix commented on 2026-10-03 17:39 (UTC)

Hi, what is the difference with https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gcc-snapshot ? This is passing as a fake stable version