On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:32:11PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2014, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > > Maybe, we should encourage ports, which is needed gcc, to use only one > > version? If many ports needs 4.8, maybe, we should bump "any" version to > > 4.8 for gcc-less systems? And move all other versions to 4.8? > > I would love to do that, in fact, I hope that at one point we can > eventually get rid of USE_GCC=any. > > What I can do for now, and have been planning to do for a few weeks, > is https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192025 aka > "Update default version of GCC (USE_GCC=yes, lang/gcc,...) to GCC 4.8". > > > Or build binary packages WITHOUT java by default!? Does anybody uses gcj > > FOR REAL when we have native openjdk7 and openjdk8?! > > There is good news, and there is bad news. The bad news is that > print/pdftk actually relies on the Java functionality in the GCC ports > to build. The good news is that it seems to be the only such port. > > Mathieu, is there a way you can help? I'd be happy to turn off Java > by default (but leave it in). > > On top of these two, the really nice improvement is going to be when > we can support the creation of several packages out of one port -- at > that point we'd just break out a small gcc-runtime package.
Won't it be possible to make gcj a slave port? That is said with no idea of gcc's internal way of building :) regards, Bapt
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