[Distutils] manylinux vs 3.6.0

[Robin Becker]

On 12/10/2016 22:09, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 7:05 AM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:
>> Any manylinux experts here?
>>
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>     https://bugs.python.org/issue28092#msg276164
>
> I suspect that this will get reverted again before 3.6-final given
> that it does in fact cause problems...

I prodded that issue with>



>> Don't want to add too much noise, but this issue also affects the manylinux project build compiler (gcc 4.8.2).

 > STINNER Victor added the comment:
>
> Would it be possible to upgrade the "manylinux" compiler (take a more recent GCC version)?

I'm not the expert here, but I though the whole point was to have a common 
denominator system. Is gcc part of the 'commons' or can we use any version of 
the compiler provided the other common denominator libs are acceptable to it?
-- 
Robin Becker