svn commit: r44489 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Apr 8 15:52:53 UTC 2014

Author: pgj
Date: Tue Apr  8 15:52:52 2014
New Revision: 44489
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44489

Log:
  - Add 2014Q1 status report GCC in the ports
  
  Submitted by:	gerald

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml	Tue Apr  8 15:50:21 2014	(r44488)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml	Tue Apr  8 15:52:52 2014	(r44489)
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: Keep the number of entries updated -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 31 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 32 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and
       June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -1970,4 +1970,61 @@ device vt_efifb</pre>
 	Team.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='ports'>
+    <title>GCC in the Ports Collection</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Gerald</given>
+	  <common>Pfeifer</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>gerald at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://gcc.gnu.org">Upstream GCC</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>While the age old version of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
+	in the base system is on its way out with &os; 10 and
+	later, there are many users who want (and some platforms which
+	need) to use GCC.</p>
+
+      <p>For that purpose there are various versions of GCC in the ports
+	tree, including <tt>lang/gcc46</tt>, <tt>lang/gcc47</tt>,
+	<tt>lang/gcc48</tt> and <tt>lang/gcc49</tt> which track upstream
+	snapshots of the respective release branches, and more
+	importantly <tt>lang/gcc</tt> which serves as the canonical
+	version of GCC and is the default when a port requests
+	<tt>USE_GCC=yes</tt> as well as for some cases of
+	<tt>USES=compiler</tt>.</p>
+
+       <p>With a lot of help from Christoph Moench-Tegeder who fixed
+	many ports and made a fair number respect <tt>CXXFLAGS</tt>,
+	<tt>LDFLAGS</tt> and friends, we managed to update the canonical
+	version from GCC 4.6.4 to GCC 4.7.3.  Many of Christoph's fixes
+	also benefit Clang and other modern compilers.</p>
+
+       <p>For users of <tt>lang/gcc</tt>, this upgrade proved very
+	smooth, and we generally recommend using this port over version
+	specific ones.</p>
+
+       <p>After ten years of service <tt>lang/gcc34</tt> retired, as did
+	<tt>lang/gcc44</tt> after half that timespan.</p>
+
+       <p>On a related note, with the help of &a.marino;, the license of
+	the GCC ports now properly reflects the combination of GPLv3 for
+	the compiler itself and GPLv3 with GCC Runtime Library Exception
+	for the runtime.  The latter is the key in making it possible to
+	use GCC for building and distributing non-free software.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Move <tt>lang/gcc</tt> from GCC 4.7 to GCC 4.8.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
