GCC withdraw

[Roman Divacky]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 09:35:12AM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> On 8/24/13 3:23 AM, Mark Felder wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013, at 13:20, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >> On 8/23/13 7:55 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >>> In message <52174D51.2050601 at digsys.bg>, Daniel Kalchev writes:
> >>>
> >>>>> - 9.x gcc default and clang in base;
> >>>>> - 10.x clang default and gcc in ports;
> >>>> I believe this is the best idea so far. As long as these ports work with
> >>>> gcc in ports, that is.
> >>> +1
> >>>
> >> well as I was forced to go back to gcc to get a compiling & running
> >> kernel on my VPS (xen)
> >> I'm not convinced that clang is there yet. I'd be really grumpy if I
> >> had to go through al the ports hoopla to recompile my kernel.
> >>
> >>
> > Curious which Xen version. I'd like to try to replicate this issue. I've
> > seen FreeBSD 10 run just fine on XenServer 6.0 and 6.2.
> I don't know.. whatever RootBSD run, but the fact that I needed gcc 
> for anything suggests that we should keep it around for a while.

Why do you need to use gcc for everything? What happens if you use clang?
Be specific, without details this is just FUD.

Roman