GCC in the Ports Collection

From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 15:52:53 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9A0D1D9A; Tue, 8 Apr 2014 15:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7953A11D2; Tue, 8 Apr 2014 15:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s38Fqrbr086747; Tue, 8 Apr 2014 15:52:53 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from pgj@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id s38FqruD086746; Tue, 8 Apr 2014 15:52:53 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201404081552.s38FqruD086746@svn.freebsd.org> From: Gabor Pali Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 15:52:53 +0000 (UTC) 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 X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 15:52:53 -0000 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 @@

Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 31 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

+ contains 32 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

The deadline for submissions covering between April and June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.

@@ -1970,4 +1970,61 @@ device vt_efifb Team. + + + GCC in the Ports Collection + + + + + Gerald + Pfeifer + + gerald@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Upstream GCC + + + +

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.

+ +

For that purpose there are various versions of GCC in the ports + tree, including lang/gcc46, lang/gcc47, + lang/gcc48 and lang/gcc49 which track upstream + snapshots of the respective release branches, and more + importantly lang/gcc which serves as the canonical + version of GCC and is the default when a port requests + USE_GCC=yes as well as for some cases of + USES=compiler.

+ +

With a lot of help from Christoph Moench-Tegeder who fixed + many ports and made a fair number respect CXXFLAGS, + LDFLAGS 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.

+ +

For users of lang/gcc, this upgrade proved very + smooth, and we generally recommend using this port over version + specific ones.

+ +

After ten years of service lang/gcc34 retired, as did + lang/gcc44 after half that timespan.

+ +

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.

+ + + + Move lang/gcc from GCC 4.7 to GCC 4.8. + +