Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 22:16:25 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [TESTING]: ClangBSD branch needs testing before the import to HEAD Message-ID: <20100601051625.GA60676@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20100601145322.52546745@duncan.reilly.home> References: <20100529130240.GA99732@freebsd.org> <20100530135859.GI83316@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <508DA8CE-749A-46B4-AF0B-392DB08CBBCD@samsco.org> <20100531095617.GR83316@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <71B7DEC2-1ABE-4333-8C8E-02F899D2449B@samsco.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1005311456430.91047@fledge.watson.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1005311051440.12132@sea.ntplx.net> <4C03DD4B.9020209@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20100601145322.52546745@duncan.reilly.home>
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On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:53:22PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > On Mon, 31 May 2010 17:01:15 +0100 > Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > > > Is it really such a bad thing to have gcc as a build-dependency > > for various ported applications? > > There are already ports that have gcc-4.4.4 as a dependency, and > a few that still require gcc-3.4.6. > > [on my system, that's : > ffmpeg-0.5.1_3,1 > gegl-0.1.2_1 > gimp-app-2.6.8_3,1 > ufraw-0.16_3 > x264-0.0.20100222_1 > xsane-0.996_3 > blas-1.0_4 > lapack-3.2.1_1 Well, blas and lapack require gcc-4.4.4 because these are implemented in Fortran. Fortran was removed from FreeBSD's base several years ago. Note, also that clang/llvm can't compile these libraries so the dependencies won't disappear anytime soon. -- Steve
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