Re: gcc and FreeBSD [was: Re: Which GCC in CURRENT? [Was: Re: Wine update]]
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 04:40:53PM -0400, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
Should any of you have some time to spend, those two PRs I mentioned above
are really critical. hinthint g
I have issues with one of them -- IMHO FSF/GCC should not assume the
existence of crt{i,n}.o since they supply their own crt{begin,end}.o
(thru crtstuff.c). There is obivious assumpitons by crtstuff.c on what
crt{i,n}.o supplies, and thus seems logical GCC come with its own
crt{i,n}.s. This is not to say I am unbending on this (and it also
carries over into JDP's teritory), but I do want to rasie this issue on
the [EMAIL PROTECTED] (after BSDcon) mailing list to see what they say.
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.
I am tied up at BSDcon for the week. So I'll reply to this thread better
later.
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Re: gcc and FreeBSD [was: Re: Which GCC in CURRENT? [Was: Re: Wine update]]
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. hinthint 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. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
