Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>
> Upgrades are not painless at all on FreeBSD, because of some additional
> hacks you/we are using. See the following two PRs for examples that cost
> me quite some time each (and are still open):
>
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20966
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=21983
>
> If the first PR is not resolved in time for the GCC 3.0 release process
> (which is not that far ahead), FreeBSD might even be dropped from the list
> of secondary evaluation platforms for GCC 3.0. :-(
This worries me. We should not alienate ourself from the development of
"our" toolchain. Ideally, we should have no FreeBSD patches of our own.
> In any case, the bug does prevent regular GCC developers and testers from
> using FreeBSD -- not a good thing, either! :-(
Agreed.
> On the other hand, lately David O'Brien has submitted several patches for
> the FreeBSD ports to GCC, most (all?) of which have been reviewed and
> integrated quickly, so there is a good chance that the difference between
> the FreeBSD version of GCC and FSF GCC will be further reduced. :-)
I don't follow the gcc lists too closely. Time... All I know is that
there was a bit more work to do.
David?
> Should any of you have some time to spend, those two PRs I mentioned above
> are really critical. <hint><hint> <g>
Of course time is always the issue :-)
David: Can you take a look at it, or shall I try to free some time for
this. It sounds important enough from what I understand from Gerald.
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