Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:07:06 -0500
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Cc: Dirk Meyer <dinoex@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: lang/gcc{33, 34, 40, 41, 42, 43} and loss of /usr/bin/objformat (was: cvs commit: ports/devel/gnustep-make Makefile)
Message-ID: <20070216000705.GA46652@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 01:01:52AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > If things go according to my current schedule, lang/gcc41, lang/gcc42 and > > lang/gcc43 should be fixed properly (i.e. upstream and in the ports) within > > less than a week for the C and Fortran frontends; Java is more complex and > > may take a bit longer. > > Since this may affect many of you, let me provide a status update: > > lang/gcc33, lang/gcc34, and lang/gcc40 which are not maintained upstream > any longer now received a one-off patch by yours truely. > > I have also patches GCC 4.2 and GCC 4.3 upstream and updated lang/gcc42 > accordingly. > > lang/gcc43 will follow within 48 hours. Upstream GCC 4.1 and lang/gcc41 > will follow by next Tuesday. Thanks. > Older versions of GCC in our ports tree should be removed rather sooner > than later. They have served us well, but it's due time to say Good Bye. Yeah, the problem is that quite a few ports still require them. I guess they should be deprecated with enough grace period to give any remaining users the chance to step up and fix the code to work with newer gccs. Krishome | help
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