Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 15:52:53 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r44489 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201404081552.s38FqruD086746@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Tue Apr 8 15:52:52 2014 New Revision: 44489 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44489 Log: - Add 2014Q1 status report GCC in the ports Submitted by: gerald Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Tue Apr 8 15:50:21 2014 (r44488) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Tue Apr 8 15:52:52 2014 (r44489) @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ <!-- XXX: Keep the number of entries updated --> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 31 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + contains 32 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> <p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p> @@ -1970,4 +1970,61 @@ device vt_efifb</pre> Team.</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='ports'> + <title>GCC in the Ports Collection</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Gerald</given> + <common>Pfeifer</common> + </name> + <email>gerald@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://gcc.gnu.org">Upstream GCC</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>While the age old version of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) + in the base system is on its way out with &os; 10 and + later, there are many users who want (and some platforms which + need) to use GCC.</p> + + <p>For that purpose there are various versions of GCC in the ports + tree, including <tt>lang/gcc46</tt>, <tt>lang/gcc47</tt>, + <tt>lang/gcc48</tt> and <tt>lang/gcc49</tt> which track upstream + snapshots of the respective release branches, and more + importantly <tt>lang/gcc</tt> which serves as the canonical + version of GCC and is the default when a port requests + <tt>USE_GCC=yes</tt> as well as for some cases of + <tt>USES=compiler</tt>.</p> + + <p>With a lot of help from Christoph Moench-Tegeder who fixed + many ports and made a fair number respect <tt>CXXFLAGS</tt>, + <tt>LDFLAGS</tt> and friends, we managed to update the canonical + version from GCC 4.6.4 to GCC 4.7.3. Many of Christoph's fixes + also benefit Clang and other modern compilers.</p> + + <p>For users of <tt>lang/gcc</tt>, this upgrade proved very + smooth, and we generally recommend using this port over version + specific ones.</p> + + <p>After ten years of service <tt>lang/gcc34</tt> retired, as did + <tt>lang/gcc44</tt> after half that timespan.</p> + + <p>On a related note, with the help of &a.marino;, the license of + the GCC ports now properly reflects the combination of GPLv3 for + the compiler itself and GPLv3 with GCC Runtime Library Exception + for the runtime. The latter is the key in making it possible to + use GCC for building and distributing non-free software.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Move <tt>lang/gcc</tt> from GCC 4.7 to GCC 4.8.</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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