cvs commit: CVSROOT modules ports MOVED ports/lang Makefile ports/lang/gcc31 Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/lang/gcc31/files patch-ad patch-af patch-ai patch-ar patch-fa patch-fb patch-fc patch-va

[Max Khon]

Hi!

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:40:48AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:

> > gerald      2005-07-31 13:34:35 UTC
> > 
> >   FreeBSD ports repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     .                    modules 
> >     .                    MOVED 
> >     lang                 Makefile 
> >   Removed files:
> >     lang/gcc31           Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist 
> >     lang/gcc31/files     patch-ad patch-af patch-ai patch-ar 
> >                          patch-fa patch-fb patch-fc patch-va 
> >   Log:
> >   Remove the lang/gcc31 port.  It fails to build on several architectures
> >   (even ones it is supposed to work on, cf. pointyhat), it fails to build
> >   on FreeBSD 6 and 7, and lang/gcc32 is basically the same plus a single
> >   ABI changes and many bug fixes.
> >   
> >   It is strongly recommended to migrate to GCC 3.4 or 4.0, since only these
> >   are still actively maintained upstream and support FreeBSD 7, for example.
> 
> There are still plenty of software that require GCC 3.3.  This includes
> various game SDK's and level editors out there I'm currently working on
> porting to FreeBSD.  That is, I'd like to have gcc33 preserved for some
> time.  Thanks!

You need to support gcc 3.4 anyway, or you end up with USE_GCC= x.y which
is evil.

/fjoe