gcc5 dependency challenges
Kubilay Kocak
koobs at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 14 10:23:29 UTC 2016
On 14/10/2016 6:48 PM, Dewayne Geraghty wrote:
> After some rudimentary performance testing I note that we get up
> around 3% improvement in application performance when we use gcc5 for
> our package builds.
>
> However building ports with gcc results in gcc5 being a dependency.
> Examining ldd, we find that rarely does anything require gcc5's
> shared libs for their execution. Even simple things like ftp/wget
> and devel/ccache depend on gcc5 for building but NOT runtime. As we
> aren't allowed to install compilers onto production systems, what is
> the best course of action to address? (We could just install gcc5 and
> then remove it but then of course, the base pkg wants to remove
> everything (600+ packages) that depends on gcc5!)
>
> So the question is - how should we build our packages or install them
> so that gcc5 is not (unnecessarily) installed?
>
> We've added to our /etc/make.conf USE_GCC= 5 but I wonder if there's
> something like a build_depends mechanism?
>
>
> Background: Our FreeBSD 10.3 Stable uses pkg 1.8.3; whereas ports
> uses 1.8.7_3, minor point.
>
> Why gcc5? Well most ports use clang 3.4.1 to compile, some ports do
> use gcc 4.8.5; and if we move to FreeBSD11 then we also need to add
> llvm3.6 into the build/migrating equation. So to aid our migration
> effort we "think" choosing gcc5 now is a good idea; particularly as
> /usr/ports/base/gcc uses gcc 5.4.0 (rather than /usr/ports/lang/gcc
> which is 4.8.5)
>
> All production systems use local package repositories (as heimdal is
> widely used as are non-default options).
>
> Kind regards, Dewayne
This (in progress thing) may help:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211154
See dependent Bugzilla issue:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211079
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