setting gcc42 as default compiler

[Maho NAKATA]

From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer.com>
Subject: Re: setting gcc42 as default compiler
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 16:25:03 +0200 (CEST)

> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Maho NAKATA wrote:
> > As 7-CURRENT is going to ship with gcc42,
> > I'd like to switch the default compiler for OOo ports to gcc42, too.
> 
> This sounds like a great plan!

You are welcome, and thanks for maintaining a lot of gcc ports, too.
Now gcc42 is the default compiler for
openoffice.org-2-devel. So openoffice.org-2 (2.3) will be build with
gcc42.

> > Drawbacks
> > * Sometimes we need additional gcc42 patches for OOo.
> 
> The good thing here is that GCC 4.2 is still actively maintained
> upstream, and several Linux distributions are using GCC 4.1 (and
> possibly 4.2) without specific changes.

Extra qualification is now error by syntax strictness of gcc4.2 and 4.1.
Thus we require some additional patches. But I beileve cost I must
pay is not big as the maintainers of OOo in other GNU/Linux distro. 
are also interested in this issue, so it will be fixed by them very quickly.

http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=77818
(see also http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=77829 )

All the best,
-- Nakata Maho (maho at FreeBSD.org)