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
Alexey Dokuchaev
danfe at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 1 14:48:35 GMT 2005
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:25:46PM +0700, Max Khon wrote:
> 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.
I'm talking about ~200K lines of very 3.3-specific (that is, no strict
standards conformant) C++ code. I've tried converting it to 3.4, but I
stopped after I realized the patch would be just *huge*). I've ended up
with USE_GCC=3.3, that's right. *sigh*
./danfe
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