[toolchain] amd64-gcc question

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 04:04:07PM -0553, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 11/15/15 13:58, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Nov 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> >> I pkg-installed amd64-gcc over the weekend hoping for Graphite
> >> (auto-loop parallelization) support, but no go.
> > When you say "amd64-gcc" where did you obtain that from?  As a
> > FreeBSD port/package, or somewhere else?
> 
> I pkg-installed it originally, but as of last Monday, there was a port 
> as well, I did a 'portsnap fetch update' (all box-stock ports configs) & 
> there it was ....
> 
> >
> >> just did a 'portsnap fetch upgrade' & there is now a port
> >> for amd64-gcc, but it includes no files & no pkg-descr file.
> > This is a little weird.  I have packaged GCC 4.6 (lang/gcc46),
> > GCC 4.7 (lang/gcc47), GCC 4.8 (lang/gcc48), GCC 4.9 (lang/gcc49),
> > GCC 5 (lang/gcc5 and lang/gcc5-devel) and GCC 6 snapshot (lang/gcc6-devel)
> > as well as the "canonical" version of GCC (lang/gcc, currently
> > GCC 4.8 and in the process of being moved to GCC 4.9).
> >
> > All of these build and package on amd64, feature pkg-descr, etc.
> > And as a FreeBSD user leveraging the official FreeBSD Ports Collection
> > is the recommended approach.
> >
> > None of them would be called amd64-gcc or similar, though.
> 
> amd64-gcc-5.2.0
> amd64-xtoolchain-gcc-0.1
> 
> is what pkg calls them ....

Those are cross toolchain packages to cross build base with modern gcc

Bapt
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