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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:38:04 +0100 (CET)
From:      Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?T=C4=B3l_Coosemans?= <tijl@FreeBSD.org>,  Andreas Tobler <andreast@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org
Cc:        Diane Bruce <db@db.net>, Dima Pasechnik <dimpase+freebsd@gmail.com>,  Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org,  Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Subject:   Re: FreeCAD 0.17 && /lib//libgcc_s.so.1
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Hi Tijl, hi everyone, 

and let me add Andreas who has been helping on the GCC side (both 
ports, viz. his work on arm and powerpc, and upstream) and toolchain@!


And first of all, let me apologize.  Clearly the experience both Tijl
as a contributor made, as well as the one some of our users including 
some of you was not what I'd like to experience myself as a contributor 
and user, nor what I want to provide to others.

There were some personal reasons, not related to Tijl or FreeBSD at all, 
but that does not change a thing about those experiences, and I am truely 
sorry for those and will work hard to avoid such a case in the future.

On Sun, 24 Feb 2019, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> GCC_4.3.0 instead of GCC_3.3.0.  The gcc commit that changed this
> doesn't explain why this was done, but we'll have to make the same
> change in FreeBSD ARM libgcc_s to be ABI compatible (since _Unwind* is
> part of the ABI).  This isn't a blocker for the patch.
> 
> I emailed the patch to gerald on 2017-02-21.  He responded in the usual
> way that he prefers patches submitted upstream and because I thought the
> patch would not be accepted upstream he proposed an alternative solution
> where gcc would always add -rpath on FreeBSD so you didn't have to
> specify it on the command line.  I responded this wouldn't fix the case
> where clang was used as a linker (e.g. to combine fortran and c++ code
> in one program) and that the FAQ on the gcc website said it was a bad
> idea for other reasons.  I also said upstream might accept my patch if
> it was a configure option but that the gcc configure scripts are
> complicated and I didn't know where to add it exactly.  Then silence.

To move this forward, let me include an updated version of the patch
Tijl shared on 2017-02-21 (which still was in my inbox/todo list) for 
consideration for our ports collection, initially for lang/gcc8 given 
that this is the default in the ports collection.


(The lang/gcc* ports actually do carry local patches, e.g. for arm or 
powerpc or -fuse-ld=lld, but you are right that I usually try to get 
things upstream first, fixing things upstream myself when I can, or 
asking for help. The problem in this specific case was/is that I'm 
quite not enough into this area so cannot really assess and clearly
stalling over that was not good.)


Find patch-gfortran-libgcc attached which should simply plug into 
lang/gcc8/files and lang/gcc8-devel/files.

Feedback very welcome!

Gerald
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