Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:37:24 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang/gcc32 Makefile Message-ID: <20040413063723.GA25604@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040413062228.GA3504@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200404111110.i3BBAXLM042150@repoman.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.58.0404111310590.27762@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <20040413062228.GA3504@dragon.nuxi.com>
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--fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 11:22:28PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 01:13:44PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > > Modified files: > > > lang/gcc32 Makefile > > > Log: > > > This old version of GCC really only makes sense on i386 at this poi= nt (if at > > > all), so use ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=3Di386. Drop maintainership. > >=20 > > Dirk, I strongly recommend that you update the gnustep-objc port to gcc= 33. > >=20 > > In general, I suggest to get rid of at least gcc30 and gcc31 in the mid > > term. >=20 > There is no reason to get rid of older versions as long as they build > fine (or can reasonalble be made to do so). GCC has a long history of > not putting as much concern for backwards compatability. There is huge > amounts of code that still cannot be built with GCC 3.3. Same for other > versions of GCC. Please don't just go removing the ports. Make the > maintainer ports@freebsd.org and leave it at that. They don't build fine, though, and they are unmaintained. Kris --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAe4qjWry0BWjoQKURAt3yAJ4he6gXWr0T9nig63h6PaEHEfHuKQCfY53B xXk3KZVxr/sxsZGI4beUTPQ= =c+ww -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7--
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