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Date:      Thu, 05 Mar 2020 04:25:03 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        vbox@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 244603] emulators/virtualbox-ose: use contemporary GCC instead of old llvm
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Bugzilla Automation <bugzilla@FreeBSD.org> has asked vbox@FreeBSD.org for
maintainer-feedback:
Bug 244603: emulators/virtualbox-ose: use contemporary GCC instead of old l=
lvm
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D244603



--- Description ---
The bug in PR 236616 resulted in virtualbox getting pinned to llvm7. This is
less than ideal, and in-fact has been broken by improvements to
machine/atomic.h on x86 that require a more modern compiler.

Switch the build to use GCC9. USE_GCC=3D any is not sufficient, as GCC8 doe=
sn't
support the feature used by atomic.h. The patches that were previously appl=
ied
if COMPILER_TYPE =3D=3D clang are actually needed by GCC9 as well, so make =
those
standard patches instead, folding the Config.kmk patches together.

We should put some effort into testing llvm10 and working out why llvm brea=
ks
it, but fixing the build is more important at the moment.

Q/A:=20
* portlint (pre-existing issues; none in current patch)
* testport (-CURRENT, amd64)
* run tested by madpilot@



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