GCC withdraw

[Julian Elischer]

On 8/24/13 3:41 PM, Roman Divacky wrote:
> 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
>
I couldn't even get it to compile a few weeks ago.
i386 xen kernel..
gcc breezed straight through  (though getting it to boot was another 
story)