ports/169389: Firefox/Thunderbird fail to build with system GCC

Alexander Kabaev kabaev at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 18:10:11 UTC 2012


The following reply was made to PR ports/169389; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alexander Kabaev <kabaev at gmail.com>
To: Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr at gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, kan at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/169389: Firefox/Thunderbird fail to build with system GCC
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:00:50 -0400

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 On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 04:51:59PM +0300, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
 > Hi all.
 >=20
 > GCC 4.2.1 is rather a nice mess and known for generation of bad code=20
 > with higher optimization levels. So yes, this looks quite logical for me.
 >=20
 > --=20
 > Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow.
 
 Every compiler and compiler version has bugs. Should we make ports
 _never_ use anything more than -O just in case? After all, that was
 the official project stance on toolchain for a while.
 
 --=20
 Alexander Kabaev
 
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