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Date:      Sat, 24 Mar 2018 21:19:04 -0700
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Antoine Brodin <antoine@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r465416 - in head/devel: aarch64-gcc amd64-gcc mips-gcc mips64-gcc powerpc64-gcc sparc64-gcc
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On 3/23/18 11:35 PM, Antoine Brodin wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 12:53 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Author: jhb (src,doc committer)
>> Date: Fri Mar 23 23:53:52 2018
>> New Revision: 465416
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/465416
>>
>> Log:
>>   Fix --sysroot for cross-toolchain GCC packages
>>
>>   By default, GCC assumes that a cross compiler should not have any valid
>>   initial include or library paths aside from /usr/local/lib/gcc/<mumble>/.
>>   This means that one cannot use --sysroot to point to a system root for
>>   another architecture and have GCC automatically look for headers in
>>   ${sysroot}/usr/include, etc.  Currently we workaround this in FreeBSD's
>>   build system with explicit -isystem, -B, and -L directives.  However,
>>   this is cumbersome compared to clang (where a bare --sysroot DTRT)
>>   especially when using the compiler to build other software (such as test
>>   programs, etc.).
>>
>>   One can override GCC's assumption and force it to assume that it should
>>   honor --sysroot by setting the '--with-sysroot' option to force GCC to
>>   assume a specific system root.  By setting this to '/', this means that
>>   the cross-compiler will attempt to use the host's headers by default
>>   if --sysroot is not specified, but if --sysroot is specified then
>>   it is fully honored including for include paths and library paths.  With
>>   this change I can now cross-compile both C and C++ binaries simply by
>>   using --sysroot without the need for -isystem, -B, or -L directives.  Note
>>   that the base/gcc and devel/riscv64-gcc ports both use --with-sysroot='/'
>>   already.
>>
>>   By default, GCC looks for headers in /usr/local/include (under the
>>   sysroot) before /usr/include.  To disable this and only look for headers
>>   in /usr/include, patch gcc/Makefile.in to not define LOCAL_INCLUDE_DIR.
>>
>>   Once -nostdinc is no longer required, the headers installed along with the
>>   compiler are now used for compiling worlds and test programs.  The "fixed"
>>   headers in include-fixed are generally not helpful and are also derived
>>   from the host's headers which might not match the target --sysroot, so
>>   just delete them entirely.  Even the stub limits.h headers GCC ships when
>>   using an empty build sysroot are not helpful and need to be removed.
>>
>>   On a related note, I also fixed the name of the C++ include directory
>>   option to configure.  By my reading it is 'with-gxx-include-dir' rather
>>   than 'with-gcc-include-dir'.
>>
>>   Reviewed by:  bapt, brooks, kan
>>   Sponsored by: DARPA / AFRL
>>   Differential Revision:        https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14627
>>
>> Modified:
>>   head/devel/aarch64-gcc/pkg-plist
>>   head/devel/amd64-gcc/pkg-plist
>>   head/devel/mips-gcc/pkg-plist
>>   head/devel/mips64-gcc/pkg-plist
>>   head/devel/powerpc64-gcc/Makefile
>>   head/devel/powerpc64-gcc/pkg-plist
>>   head/devel/sparc64-gcc/pkg-plist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It seems some ports were missed,  like devel/aarch64-none-elf-gcc  and
> devel/arm-none-eabi-gcc

Oof, I was only aware of xtoolchain-gcc packages that were slaves of powerpc64-gcc.
I'll search for any others (including those), do test builds, and fix the pkg-plist
files Monday.  (I have a pending review for riscv64-gcc, but it isn't a slave
of powerpc64-gcc currently.)

-- 
John Baldwin



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