DMD travis-ci problems with new GDC toolchains

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 25 December 2016 at 20:25, Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> Happy holidays everybody,
>

Happy New Year.

> when testing the new GDC releases we found several problems with the
> travis-ci autotester. Travis-CI uses the quite old GCC 4.6 as a system
> GCC and the oldest GCC version supported by GDC is 4.8.
>

When asked by Martin why there aren't any GDC-5 binaries available for
travis.  I replied something to the effect of "because of ABI changes
in g++".

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14956

This would not be a problem if Travis would just provide 16.04 build
systems.  But it seems that is not a priority for them currently.

https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5821#issuecomment-243617289