GCC 12.5 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org

[Richard Biener]

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.