Sparc64 and FreeBSD 13.0

[Ed Maste]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 19:57, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Work is in progress to remove the obsolete GCC 4.2.1 from the FreeBSD
> tree before FreeBSD 13.0[1], and a tracking PR[2] is open with a list
> of dependencies[3]. In the absence of any action to address these
> (known, and perhaps additional unknown) dependencies this means
> Sparc64 will fail to build as of 2020-03-31.

Note that the next step in the GCC 4.2.1 deprecation process is four weeks away:
| 2019-12-31: Turn off gcc 4.2.1 build by default (can be turned on)

I have received some private mail about addressing the compiler
situation on sparc64, but not the other issues tracked as dependencies
in PR228919.