WITH_LLD_IS_LD vs default WITHOUT_SYSTEM_COMPILER: What are the reasons?

2017-04-14 Thread Mark Millard
man src.conf (from -r315914 ) reports: WITH_LLD_IS_LD Set to use LLVM's LLD as the system linker, instead of GNU binutils ld. This is a default setting on arm64/aarch64. When set, these options are also in effect: WITHOUT_SYS

Re: WITH_LLD_IS_LD vs default WITHOUT_SYSTEM_COMPILER: What are the reasons?

2017-04-14 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 14 Apr 2017, at 22:40, Mark Millard wrote: > > man src.conf (from -r315914 ) reports: > > WITH_LLD_IS_LD > Set to use LLVM's LLD as the system linker, instead of GNU > binutils ld. > > This is a default setting on arm64/aarch64. When set, these >

Re: lang/gcc6-aux for head beyond __nonnull related issues: vm_ooffset_t and vm_pindex_t related changes (and more)

2017-04-14 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > I didn’t want to get into this but the problem is that as part of it's > build/bootstrapping process, GCC historically takes system headers > and attempts to “fix” them. I am unsure the fixes do anything at all > nowadays but the effect is that the compil

Re: WITH_LLD_IS_LD vs default WITHOUT_SYSTEM_COMPILER: What are the reasons?

2017-04-14 Thread Mark Millard
On 2017-Apr-14, at 2:35 PM, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 14 Apr 2017, at 22:40, Mark Millard wrote: >> >> man src.conf (from -r315914 ) reports: >> >>WITH_LLD_IS_LD >>Set to use LLVM's LLD as the system linker, instead of GNU >>binutils ld. >> >>This is a

Re: lang/gcc6-aux for head beyond __nonnull related issues: vm_ooffset_t and vm_pindex_t related changes (and more)

2017-04-14 Thread Alexander Kabaev
On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 09:30:49 +1000 (AEST) Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > I didn't want to get into this but the problem is that as part of > > it's build/bootstrapping process, GCC historically takes system > > headers and attempts to "fix" them. I am unsure

Re: lang/gcc6-aux for head beyond __nonnull related issues: vm_ooffset_t and vm_pindex_t related changes (and more)

2017-04-14 Thread Mark Millard
On 2017-Apr-14, at 4:30 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >> I didn’t want to get into this but the problem is that as part of it's >> build/bootstrapping process, GCC historically takes system headers >> and attempts to “fix” them. I am unsure the fixes do any

Re: lang/gcc6-aux for head beyond __nonnull related issues: vm_ooffset_t and vm_pindex_t related changes (and more)

2017-04-14 Thread Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)
> On Apr 14, 2017, at 19:53, Mark Millard wrote: > > On 2017-Apr-14, at 4:30 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > >> On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >>> I didn’t want to get into this but the problem is that as part of it's >>> build/bootstrapping process, GCC historically takes system header

Re: lang/gcc6-aux for head beyond __nonnull related issues: vm_ooffset_t and vm_pindex_t related changes (and more)

2017-04-14 Thread Mark Millard
On 2017-Apr-14, at 8:07 PM, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) wrote: > Is there a reason why you need ada support (that seems to be the only > real reason for installing gcc6 vs gcc6-aux)? gcc6-aux uses a snapshot of > gcc6 with custom options. > Thanks! > -Ngie I got to lang/gcc6-aux indirectly