On 08/06/2012 00:30, b. f. wrote: > On 8/6/12, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On 07/31/2012 08:57, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: >>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Doug Barton wrote: > > <skipping quibbles and polemics>
Sure, whatever. >> Just to be clear, you compile stuff with gcc 4.6, that is linked against >> libgcc, and then you update to 4.7, with a new libgcc, and everything >> still works? If so, that's great, I'm glad to hear that it's not a problem. > > For the most part, yes. In my mind, this isn't good enough. But I'm not in charge of anything. :) > I think Gerald was referring to Bapt's plan to make it easier to make > multiple packages from a single port, so that those who used packages > exclusively could install a package consisting of only the runtime > support libraries, rather than the whole compiler suite. Universal support for that is years away, minimum. > I had > patches to do this even without pkgng, but it made things a little > more complicated, and didn't seem to be a high priority, so I didn't > pursue it. If people feel that it is important, I could work with > Gerald to revive that, or use a knob like that of ports/155408 with > static linking to allow users to remove the runtime dependency for a > lot of software, at the cost of some added overhead from redundancies. Making this change now would benefit a lot of people, now. Doug -- I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. -- Edward Everett Hale, (1822 - 1909) _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"