[SR-108] Port Swift to RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 / Scientific Linux 7

[gribozavr]

Previous ID	SR-108
Radar	None
Original Reporter	@gribozavr
Type	New Feature

Additional Detail from JIRA

Votes	9
Component/s	Compiler
Labels	New Feature, Linux, NewPortRequest
Assignee	None
Priority	Medium

md5: 03a251b008044157d2f6598dd20ef673

Issue Description:

RHEL 7 and CentOS 7 are widely used as server operating systems, and porting Swift to these distributions would benefit many community members.

[swift-ci]

Comment by Vivek Pandya (JIRA)

I think best way to start working on this is to compile Swift on CentOS7. I will give it a try.

[meadori]

There was some discussion on the mailing list about this: https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-dev/Week-of-Mon-20151207/000091.html

I am already looking into this one, but would appreciate any findings posted to the issue.

[swift-ci]

Comment by Timothy S Hawkins (JIRA)

I have already built on fedora23 and fedora22 which is basicaly the same level as rh7/centos7

There is one blocker bug with a workaround, see

https://github.com/thawkins/fedora-swift

[swift-ci]

Comment by Lane Schwartz (JIRA)

https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-58 is related to this.

[swift-ci]

Comment by Lane Schwartz (JIRA)

Is this being actively worked on by anyone?