Grepping the ports tree for uses of /usr/bin/gcc turned up
devel/arm-elf/gcc.  That port has been marked BROKEN "due to frequent
segfaults during build" for 4.5 years.  I guess nobody has missed
it since.

I was going to suggest that we remove the port, but it's part of
four related ones:

devel/arm-elf/binutils
devel/arm-elf/gcc
devel/arm-elf/gdb
devel/arm-elf/newlib

newlib depends on gcc, so it will have to go too if gcc goes.
binutils and gdb are independent of gcc, and in fact we have packages
for them.  But are they any use on their own?

The ports were imported in 2007, once updated in 2010, the maintainer
asked to be removed in 2012, and otherwise the changes have been
mostly infrastructure churn.

Can we delete all of devel/arm-elf?  Yes?  No?
What's the use of an "arm-elf" cross-tools suite?

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          [email protected]

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