[current tinderbox] failure on ...all...

[Mark Linimon]

> I tried.  But Kris refused to consider the following for committing.
> The problem is something like 3 ports will not build with
> "-fno-strict-aliasing".  Those are the gcc28, gnat[*] ports.
> 
> [*] I really don't understand why we have a GCC 2.8 based Ada compiler
> when Ada has been a native part of GCC since version 3.1...

If these ports are useless, why don't we mark them DEPRECATED and
after a decent interval, get rid of them?

In this day and age, anyone who's on gcc27 or gcc28 is hopelessly
behind anyways.  I can't imagine that with the long-established
track record of gcc295 there is any reason to keep them.

mcl