[Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 86, Issue 14

[André Pönitz]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 07:39:51AM -0600, roland at logikalsolutions.com wrote:
> > Please note also that "not out-of-the-box" does not necessarily mean it
> > cannot be done.  Asking Google for "ubuntu 14.04 gcc" gives as third hit
> > https://gist.github.com/application2000/73fd6f4bf1be6600a2cf9f56315a2d91,
> > apparently giving instructions to get a gcc 6.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.
> 
> Spoken like someone whose never worked in a production environment
> restricted to official repos. The bulk of the serious development
> using Qt are such environments, not idiot phone apps.

You are apparently not restricted to "official repos" as you are
trying to build Qt Creator from source.

Exactly the same process ("compile something from source") would
give you a contemporary compiler that would be able to build Creator
from source.

So basically your "problem" is completely made up by your self-imposed
restrictions that "allows" you to build this but not that.

Andre'