Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 19:22:38 -0800 (PST) From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@tutopia.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler?) Message-ID: <61484.71762.qm@web32708.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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FWIW,
I had some informal talk with brooks@ about this at EuroBSDCon:
- groff(1) needs a C++ compiler so clang is not (yet) an option for the time being we will have to live with GCC or llvm-gcc.
Some things we should consider:
- Replacing groff with something less restricted that doesn't require C++: Heirloom-doctools may be an option.
- More extensive testing of gcc-llvm: A USE_GCC= llvm for the ports tree would be nice.
- Remove gcc from the base and make the compilation depend on a packaged C.. somewhat like was made with perl.
binutils is yet another issue: I am hoping this will be updated to the latest GPL2 version while a new alternative is developed. Perhaps a combination of RH elfutils and our own libelf efforts would make a viable alternative.
just my $0.02,
Pedro.
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