cvs commit: ports/lang/gcc40 Makefile distinfo pkg-plist

Gerald Pfeifer gerald at pfeifer.com
Thu May 26 12:30:11 PDT 2005


On Sun, 22 May 2005, David O'Brien wrote:
>> However, I think we should see to use one of the regular ports in the 
>> future instead of having a special port just for the purpose of building 
>> OpenOffice.org.
> At the moment gcc-ooo has some needed patches that were rejected for GCC
> 3.4.  So we have no choice - unless we add the patches to the gcc34 port.
> I investigated doing that, but I wasn't comfortable with the changes the
> patches make to add them to gcc34 for general use.

Yes, in that case we shouldn't do that.  However, I wonder whether it's
really necessary to keep gcc-ooo as a port of its own instead of making
it a child port of the main gcc34 port which carries additional patches?

Alternatively, how about giving the gcc40 port a try?

Gerald


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