From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 1 19:42:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1033) id 0052616A420; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 19:42:36 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 19:42:36 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Gerald Pfeifer Message-ID: <20050801194236.GA22685@FreeBSD.org> References: <200507311334.j6VDYZcb071651@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050801084048.GA41179@FreeBSD.org> <20050801171425.GB1348@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT modules ports MOVED ports/lang Makefile ports/lang/gcc31 Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/lang/gcc31/files patch-ad patch-af patch-ai patch-ar patch-fa patch-fb patch-fc patch-va X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 19:42:37 -0000 On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:28:36PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > >> I think gcc33 will be there for quite some time, but please note that > >> the gcc33 port fails to work on amd64 and FreeBSD 7. > > I've aware of that. I still hope, however, that this woudl get fixed in > > some time. How hard is the problem, BTW? > > FreeBSD 7 probably won't be too hard, amd64 is unlikely. Good to hear, can we expect at least i386 can be fixed in some near future? > > >> Personally, I'd be very hesitant to accept any new port which fails to > >> work with GCC 3.4 or later. That's a maintenance nightmare in the making. > > This would of course be highly desirable, but the reality is lots of > > software are nto supported by 3.4. I tend to blame popular Linnex distros > > that still carry 3.2 and 3.3 versions these days, given that vast > > majority of developers use those as their primary build platforms. :-( > > SUSE builds all of their packages with GCC 4.0 these days, and I've been > told that Red Hat does the same with Fedora. There are still plenty of installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (which uses GCC 3.2) and Fedora Core 1 (GCC 3.3) though. ./danfe