GCC withdraw

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Fri Aug 30 14:53:44 UTC 2013


On 08/30/13 00:35, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 30 Aug 2013, at 08:18, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> As far as I'm concerned we can even slate it for
>> "possible removal in 10.2-- if clang has proven up to the task"
> I would be happy to ship gcc, as long as:
>
> - It's explicitly marked as deprecated and due for removal at some point in the 10.x timeframe.
> - libstdc++ is gone (the amount of pain it's causing ports is phenomenal).
>

So the real driver here is switching to libc++. Is there really no way
at all to use it with gcc? If, even with hacking, we could arrange that
to work then it seems that all of our problems would go away.
-Nathan


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