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Date:      Sun, 05 Apr 2015 14:10:55 -0500
From:      Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [Heads up] : You may need to update your gcc ports.
Message-ID:  <552188BF.5040501@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaXk8Zx4=73=MCFo9ge_UGS-pFSUrDv3iLVQxnpV4%2BpaoVQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 04/05/15 13:00, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Hello;
>>
>> I was going to add this to the UPDATING file but this file is not meant
>> for changes affecting ports so here it goes instead:
>>
>> 20150415:
>>          Our libc headers are starting to use gcc-style attributes to hint
>>          the compiler about probable optimizations or errors. Unfortunately
>>          gcc from ports does some bogus "fixing" of our system headers and
>>          carries them internally so you may have to update your gcc ports so
>>          that they grab the complete system headers and particularly the
>>          cdefs.h file changes from r280801.
>>
>>
>> This basically affects only -current users that haven't rebuilt their gcc
>> ports in a week.
>>
>> Sorry for the inconvenience,
>>
>> Pedro.
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>
> Is there anyway to make the compile of GCC go faster.... I am
> currently compiling lang/gcc on a VM and it has been munching away for
> *18 HOURS* on a 4 core machine with 8 GB of RAM

I don't know if someone is keeping up-to-date packages for -current
but I will hold the headers update for a while to help such cases.

Thanks for the feedback,

Pedro.



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