Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 09:53:04 GMT From: Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-doc-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: git: 45c1836a12 - main - Status/2025Q3/gcc.adoc: Add report Message-ID: <202510300953.59U9r4pr005294@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
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The branch main has been updated by salvadore: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=45c1836a12ee569fc0360ce6684b4c38096254c0 commit 45c1836a12ee569fc0360ce6684b4c38096254c0 Author: Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2025-09-30 15:02:52 +0000 Commit: Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2025-10-30 09:47:10 +0000 Status/2025Q3/gcc.adoc: Add report Reviewed by: Chris Moerz <freebsd@ny-central.org> Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/555 --- .../en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/gcc.adoc | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/gcc.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/gcc.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c164362247 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/gcc.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +=== GCC on FreeBSD + +Links: + +link:https://gcc.gnu.org/[GCC Project] URL: link:https://gcc.gnu.org/[] + +link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/[GCC 13 release series] URL: link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/[] + +link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-14/[GCC 14 release series] URL: link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-14/[] + +link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-11/[GCC 15 release series] URL: link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-15/[] + +link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-11/[GCC 16 release series] URL: link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-16/[] + + +Contact: Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org> + +The link:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=281091[exp-run to update GCC default version from 13 to 14] is almost done at the time this report is written: only one last PR stays open. +Hopefully, the update has been finally done when you are reading these lines. +However I remind you that the latest GCC major version is GCC 15, so we will still be behind one version. +Of course, another exp-run will be prepared to update GCC_DEFAULT to GCC 15, but not immediately. +I will wait some time to ensure that the GCC_DEFAULT=14 update has indeed worked as expected and to deal with some other issues related to the GCC ports. + +Another important change concerns bootstrapping. +The GCC ports were in an inconsistent state: some ports required a bootstrap option to be chosen, while others did not. +Now all GCC ports allow building without any bootstrap option selected, just as it was in the past. + +The problem is that building GCC on FreeBSD with FreeBSD's default compiler (clang) is not fully supported. +Since I know that many users do prefer to build GCC without bootstrapping it, instead of enforcing it as I initially planned, I prefer to maintain the option but remove from a no-boostrap build all features that cannot be built successfully. +It shall be the users' responsibility to ensure that they do not need any feature incompatible with no-boostrap builds. + +At the moment, jit is the only feature that is excluded from a no-bootstrap build. +The default bootstrap option is STANDARD_BOOSTRAP, so users of packages from official FreeBSD packages repositories will have a full build with all the supported features avaible. + +See commits link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=5ee63cc45413954077b2b0c0546b8342585b41ba[5ee63cc45413954077b2b0c0546b8342585b41ba], link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=62f186cdf6e9689f30e854a0e23482c552c851a2[62f186cdf6e9689f30e854a0e23482c552c851a2] and link:https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-ports-main/2025-August/160223.html[this mail] for more details.
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