Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:51:40 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: bf1783@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>, "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com>, Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Subject: Re: lang/gcc46 Message-ID: <501F778C.5040203@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGFTUwN9rU-scMXBVX7qoL8Sj2x0H8qnVN2ANhKobUJqpjb16Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGFTUwNbj0mDrdu40dwkmECLhrc0Uwap=8UKi=tbBgRCTvZTMQ@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.LNX.2.00.1207300152200.2533@gerinyyl.fvgr> <5015D122.4040608@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.LNX.2.00.1207311746060.2533@gerinyyl.fvgr> <501F40DB.900@FreeBSD.org> <CAGFTUwN9rU-scMXBVX7qoL8Sj2x0H8qnVN2ANhKobUJqpjb16Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On 08/06/2012 00:30, b. f. wrote:
> On 8/6/12, Doug Barton <dougb@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)
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