On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 21:19:32 +0100, David Chisnall wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > As of r255321, we are no longer building gcc or libstdc++ as part of the > default install on platforms where clang is cc. > > If you are using gcc, you have two options: > > 1) Install one of the lang/gcc* ports (Warner has been working on separating > out the patches to our GCC, so these should soon be patched to provide the > same features as the one in base) > > 2) Put WITH_GCC=yes and WITH_GNUCXX=yes in your src.conf when you build world. > > GCC will stay in the base system tree for at least the lifetime of the 10.x > release, and possibly longer if it is still being actively used. It will > remain used by tinderboxes and make universe for some architectures, so if > you commit code without testing with gcc people will know very soon... > > Thanks to Warner for all of his recent work on disentangling the toolchain, > to all of the people (Roman, Dimitry, Brooks, and others) who worked on > getting clang integrated into FreeBSD and to everyone who tested it and filed > bug reports. As of today, PowerPC64 joins x86 and ARM as platforms where > world+kernel can be successfully built (and work) with clang (although it > isn't the default yet and needs more testing), and hopefully other > architectures will follow soon. > > Huge thanks to all of the ports people who have spent the last two weeks > working on dealing with the fallout from iconv and ensuring that all of the > ports work with clang and libc++. I think over the last week, the number of > failing / ignored ports has dropped by about a thousand a day on the no-gcc > test box that Bapt has been running, which is a phenomenal achievement.
Indeed, thanks to all for their hard work, this is good news overall! To nitpick, however, what has been fixed is that ports "build" with clang and libc++, no effort can humanely be done to make sure they really *work* as before. Case in point, I only recently switched to clang in base and now the newsbeuter port crashes during startup (yeah, it builds fine). So all I'm asking for now is: how can I override a random port to be built with gcc (either from base or ports, I don't care). And what special considerations need to be done when the port uses C++. Cheers, Uli _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
