From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 17 13:40:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8801E37B479 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:40:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B7164C2; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:40:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id NAA13266; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:40:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39ECB955.386D687A@cup.hp.com> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 16:40:53 -0400 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerald Pfeifer Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc and FreeBSD [was: Re: Which GCC in CURRENT? [Was: Re: Wine update]] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. 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: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message