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Date:      Thu, 5 Jul 2018 16:43:45 +0100
From:      Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org>
To:        FreeBSD Toolchain <freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Do we need FreeBSD's minor version in gcc and binutils paths?
Message-ID:  <CAKBkRUzUV5MEpMdE2rrmhwqwrubWcZCJku3HnH5n-maBjkQZBw@mail.gmail.com>

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For example, currently packages of 11.x are built on 11.1 so
aarch64-gcc installs /usr/local/bin/aarch64-unknown-freebsd11.1-gcc
and aarch64-binutils install /usr/local/aarch64-unknown-freebsd11.1/bin/ld

This is a bit weird to see these on a 11.2 system, also causes some
problem while testing alone with local-built toolchains.

Does it make sense to strip the minor version in the paths?
i.e. change to something like /usr/local/bin/aarch64-unknown-freebsd11-gcc

I think this should be fine since we guarantee ABI stable in a stable branch.

Li-Wen

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Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org>
https://lwhsu.org



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