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gcc7 port is later than gcc8

Today, I was viewing the directory http://jog.id.distfiles.macports.org/macports/distfiles/ and found that:

gcc-7.3.0.tar.xz    60M 02-Feb-2018 21:46

while

gcc-8-20170604.tar.xz   57M 04-Sep-2017 10:27

That is, gcc8 is outdated with respect to gcc7. How?

Solution

  • GCC 7.3 is the second point release off the GCC 7 release branch. It was released upstream on January 25, 2018.

    gcc-8-20170604.tar.xz looks like a development snapshot from Subversion trunk. The first released GCC 8 version was 8.1, on May 2, 2018.

    See these resources on GCC release history: