GCC withdraw

[Erik Cederstrand]

Den 25/08/2013 kl. 16.21 skrev Ian Lepore <ian at FreeBSD.org>:

>> Please file clang bugs at http://llvm.org/bugs/
> 
> And THIS is a major reason why FreeBSD needs a compiler in base instead
> of all tools being ports.  The last thing we need is to start responding
> to every problem with "this is not my problem, go file a report
> upstream."  If we're already doing it for the compiler that's supposed
> to be the new supported tool, how much worse will peoples' experience be
> when we assert no ownership or responsibility for a toolchain at all?

I think it's perfectly reasonable to direct compilation problems in a program residing in ports to the developers of the compiler. It really has nothing to do with the FreeBSD base compiler. The reason being that mplayer relies on a non-docmented GCC-specific asm side-effect, and there's a one-line patch in the PR which solves the problem, makes the claim even more absurd.

Expecting FreeBSD Clang maintainers to respond to compilation issues in FreeBSD base seems perfectly reasonable. Expecting them to respond to random issues in the ~24.000 ports is not.

Erik