On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 09:38:55AM +0100, Iain Hibbert wrote: > one problem is that pcc is defining __GNUC__ by default, so although it > may be possible with an ANSI C or C99 compiler, the sources might assume > that GCC language features are available and they are not complete.
Compilers that are not GCC should not do that unless they're really going to be 100% compatible. It just buys trouble, and it's much easier (particularly in base, but even in pkgsrc) to go patch things that assume all non-gcc compilers are prehistoric. -- David A. Holland [email protected]
