There are new gcc-7.2.1 packages in main-testing repo. Be careful with this a gcc update is not a trivial matter.
At this time VirtualBox kernel modules will not build with this version but still require gcc-6.3.1.
Don’t know about other kernel modules like nVidia as I don’t have their hardware.
Caveat emptor.
Edit: I’m not saying there is anything wrong with the gcc-7.2.1 it’s just a dependency/requires issue as far as I know.
Edit2: I probably need to do a bug report on this but don’t have the time. Hope to do so tomorrow or Friday. Staying up after my bed time just to post this…
Ben nvidia-current is broken too…
cc1: error: fail to initialize plugin ./scripts/gcc-plugins/cyc_complexity_plugin.so
cc1: error: fail to initialize plugin ./scripts/gcc-plugins/structleak_plugin.so
cc1: error: incompatible gcc/plugin versions
etc, etc
I don’t see how this can go into the iso it will probably break most dkms packages though I have compiled other things with it and it works fine.
I wonder if the plugins are a separate package and we have the ones for thew previous version installed?
It’s saying it can’t find g++ maybe you should install that and see what happens,
./scripts/gcc-plugin.sh: line 19: g++: command not found
Just a thought
Thanks for the suggestion @fedya and @Colin. However today I got to be like a regular user and let things “just work”. This is in VirtualBox LXQt only system (installed from ISO 1300). Ran 'urpmi --auto-update" with the new gcc already installed (and no kernel-release-source package) and the new kernel 4.13.5 installed and the dkms-vboxadditions modules installed auto-magically as well. The output was different from what I was used to seeing but it worked and is working just fine.
So I’ve tested this in hardware (multiple times) and once in VBox and it is all working as far as VirtualBox kernel modules for both host and guest. Yippee Kai Yea!