[Bug 222233] sysutils/uefi-edk2-bhyve: still requires obsolete GCC 4.8 to build

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--- Comment #8 from Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Peter Grehan from comment #7)
> The port builds using gcc49, which is the most recent toolchain explicitly
> supported in that version of UEFI.

If that is an option, moving from USE_GCC=4.8 to USE_GCC=4.9 would be
one step forward.  Not perfect, but definitely in the right direction.

> Perhaps the simplest way forward is to see what if any changes were made 
> upstream to the UEFI build to support gcc5 (possibly none), back-port those to > the bhyve UEFI branch, and cut over to gcc5 after verifying that the resultant > UEFI binary is ok.

That would be two steps even; definitely very nice progress!

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