On Mon, 7 Jul 2025, Iain Sandoe wrote: > > > > On 4 Jul 2025, at 08:53, Richard Biener via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > > > The first release candidate for GCC 12.5 is available from > > > > https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/12.5.0-RC-20250704/ > > ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/12.5.0-RC-20250704/ > > > > and shortly its mirrors. It has been generated from git commit > > r12-11250-gb71ac987cd1499. > > > > I have so far bootstrapped and tested the release candidate on > > x86_64-linux. > > Please test it and report any issues to bugzilla. > > > > If all goes well, we'd like to release 12.5 on Friday, Jul 11th > > and close the branch. > > I have tested this on a range of Darwin/macOS platforms and, > unfortunately, identified that I have ommitted one backport that > has considerable fallout on the latest macOS + latest Xcode. > > The newer OS tools now emit a warning for the use of an > obsolete command line option - which leads to around 13k test > fails (e.g. > https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-testresults/2025-July/852085.html) > > The patch that’s needed is completely Darwin-local: > r14-2269-g3c776fdf1a8258 > > This affects Darwin23 (macOS 14/Sonoma) and later OS versions > that need the newer tools. > > I wonder if it would be possible to apply this, since the branch will > now be closed and therefore there’s no opportunity to fix it in the > future.
Yes, this is fine to apply. Richard.