[Numpy-discussion] NumPy 1.12.0 release

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 3:43 AM, Julian Taylor
<jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com> wrote:
> The version of gcc used will make a large difference in some places.
> E.g. the AVX2 integer ufuncs require something around 4.5 to work and in
> general the optimization level of gcc has improved greatly since the
> clang competition showed up around that time. centos 5 has 4.1 which is
> really ancient.
> I though the wheels used newer gccs also on centos 5?

The wheels are built with gcc 4.8, which is the last version that you
can get to build for centos 5.

When we bump to centos 6 as the minimum supported, we'll be able to
switch to gcc 5.3.1.

-n

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