Re: Is updating contrib/gcc desirable?

2015-12-31 Thread Yuri
On 12/31/2015 04:15, David Chisnall wrote: The newer versions of GCC are GPLv3 and so are unacceptable for the FreeBSD base system. Most of libgcc in base now comes from compiler-rt. The correct solution would be to identify the missing functionality in compiler-rt so that it can be fixed (w

Re: Is updating contrib/gcc desirable?

2015-12-31 Thread David Chisnall
On 31 Dec 2015, at 11:59, Yuri wrote: > > Would it be the right way of solving the problem if I submitted an update of > contrib/gcc and contrib/gcclibs from the gcc-5.3.0 tree? No. > Any pitfalls with this? The newer versions of GCC are GPLv3 and so are unacceptable for the FreeBSD base sy