GCC 6 coverage

[addaleax]

Hi everyone, it would be pretty cool if we could get CI coverage for running the Node.js tests, and ideally the test-commit-v8-linux job too, with binaries built by GCC 6. That would have very likely helped to catch issues like nodejs/node#8310 or nodejs/node#6272 a bit earlier.

Any chance that’s possible?

[jbergstroem]

fedora24 runs gcc 6.1.1:

[root@test-rackspace-fedora24-x64-1 ~]# cc --version
cc (GCC) 6.1.1 20160621 (Red Hat 6.1.1-3)

Do we need something newer? What suitable distribution?

[targos]

There is already a machine with fedora 24 in test-commit-linuxand this system has GCC 6 by default.

[addaleax]

No, 6.1.1 is what I have, too. Could something like that be included in test-commit-v8-linux runs?

[jbergstroem]

@addaleax done.

[jbergstroem]

I need to redeploy one of the fedora24 slaves seeing how we need a beefier vm to run tests on. I'll update this issue when done.

[jbergstroem]

Done! Part of the suite as of now: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-commit-v8-linux/