On 2012-Sep-11, 23:29, Doug Barton wrote: > What we need to do is what I and others have been asking to do for > years. We need to designate a modern version of gcc (no less than 4.6) > as the official default ports compiler, and rework whatever is needed to > support this. Fortunately, that goal is much more easily achieved than > fixing ports to build and run with clang. (It's harder than it sounds > because there are certain key libs that define some paths depending on > what compiler they were built with, but still easier than dealing with > clang in the short term.)
I like the idea very much. My only concern is that gcc is heavy to build. I can't imagine booting into a freshly installed production machine and having to install gcc just to build the couple of ports that I need there. Unless we provide a fast shortcut way to have make depends install gcc via pkg when needed, or some similar mechanism.. -- Pietro Cerutti The FreeBSD Project g...@freebsd.org PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp
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