On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 02:45:35PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 07:03:32PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 02:31:32PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote: > > > Some numbers of what pkgsrc breakage we can expect with gcc 6: > > > > > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/DH7M2ADHM6XCRFTRRSKZD6MWFUJKHBZK/ > > > > Sorry, if I missed the posts. Is there such plan (to adopt gcc 6 in > > pkgsrc)? If it is not the default compiler does it indeed affect pkgsrc > > users? > > I'm posting this mainly because there is ongoing work to upgrade gcc > in the NetBSD base system to a newer version. I think it'll be 5.3 > though.
Ok. Just a guess: NetBSD base may not face the same turmoil mentioned in cited posts. Root cause of the turmoil is bloated code, not the compiler itself (at least so is the impression I got from the post). Mayuresh.
