[Bug c++/70735] [5/6/7 Regression] problem combining std::function, generic lambdas and static variables

[allan at archlinux dot org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70735

--- Comment #6 from Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org> ---
(In reply to Jonathan Wakely from comment #5)
> (In reply to Jonathan Wakely from comment #4)

> > This shows that Arch is using a snapshot from the gcc-5-branch on 20160209,
> > which means it's 5.3.1, but they lie and call it 5.3.0 for some annoying
> > reason.
> 
> Allan, why does Arch do this?
> 
> The upstream numbering scheme used since gcc 5 means that we can distinguish
> official releases from snapshots between releases, but Arch breaks that. Why?

gcc 5.3.1 built from a snapshot tarball is calling itself 5.3.0 unless you use
"--with-pkgversion".  I do not consider this a problem with Arch if gcc does
not report the correct version with the default configure options.