[Heads up] : You may need to update your gcc ports.

Aryeh Friedman aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Sun Apr 5 18:00:10 UTC 2015


On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hello;
>
> I was going to add this to the UPDATING file but this file is not meant
> for changes affecting ports so here it goes instead:
>
> 20150415:
>         Our libc headers are starting to use gcc-style attributes to hint
>         the compiler about probable optimizations or errors. Unfortunately
>         gcc from ports does some bogus "fixing" of our system headers and
>         carries them internally so you may have to update your gcc ports so
>         that they grab the complete system headers and particularly the
>         cdefs.h file changes from r280801.
>
>
> This basically affects only -current users that haven't rebuilt their gcc
> ports in a week.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience,
>
> Pedro.
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Is there anyway to make the compile of GCC go faster.... I am
currently compiling lang/gcc on a VM and it has been munching away for
*18 HOURS* on a 4 core machine with 8 GB of RAM
-- 
Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org


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