On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:43 AM, John Marino <gnu...@marino.st> wrote: > On 12/13/2012 11:11, Richard Biener wrote: >> >> >> They are stuck with pre-GPLv3 GCC compilers anyway. >> >> ISTR we changed the default i?86 triple from i386 to i586 for 4.6, so we >> are already half-way through the deprecation. I'd say simply go ahead. >> >> Note that i386-freebsd is still listed as primary architecture though, so >> something has to be done about that first. Steering Commitee please? >> (I'd say drop *-freebsd from the list of primary/secondary archs entirely >> given that they are not at all happy with GPLv3 and not using still >> maintained >> compilers) > > > > Both NetBSD and DragonFly BSD use GPLv3 compilers in their base systems. > FreeBSD ports have every modern version of GCC in them, nothing stops a user > from building and using the latest GCC on FreeBSD (Note the ports are well > maintained). > > FreeBSD and DragonFly (at least) have already dropped i386 support, it's an > alias for i486. I don't know about NetBSD or OpenBSD. > > I don't speak for FreeBSD, but dropping them from Tier 1 support because > they don't use a GPLv3 *BASE* compiler is a bit vindictive.
Well, I'm fine with changing it to i486-freebsd - just keeping i386-freebsd listed but deprecating i386 looks odd. Richard. > John
