GCC withdraw (was: Re: patch to add AES intrinsics to gcc)

[Warner Losh]

On Aug 23, 2013, at 7:54 AM, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 23 Aug 2013, at 14:52, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>> No. That breaks non x86 architecutres. gcc must remain in base for now, or there's no bootstrap ability. Nobody has done the lifting to cleanly integrate gcc as a port into buildworld, althogh Brooks' work gets us most of the way there.
> 
> We've been using brooks' work to build the base system with an out-of-tree toolchain for some time now...

I'll have to try the native build part of the cycle then...  Early versions of the patch failed when you cross built the target, installed the target, but wound up with no compilers to bootstrap the external toolchains with to do native builds on the target.

Warner