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

[David O'Brien]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:24:06PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:
> > 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 could say that about tons of other ports.  The gcc28 port works fine,
and I don't see what is wrong with the patch I supplied.  gcc28 is still
the fastest compiler (in terms of compiler speed) we have on FreeBSD.  It
is still useful.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)