Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:00:09 -0500 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Compiling ports in a post-9.0-RELEASE world Message-ID: <20110314110009.GB4465@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <4D7BED01.6000506@FreeBSD.org> References: <4D7BED01.6000506@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:00:33PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> 1. Fix all ports to compile with both gcc 4.2 (for RELENG_[78]) and clang.
I do not believe we have enough time before 9.0R to accomplish this;
especially as I understand that there is pressure within the src committer
community to simply "throw the switch".
> 2. Adopt an official "ports compiler," which would likely be one of
> the gcc versions from the ports tree itself, and update all ports to
> work with it.
I think this is our only reasonable alternative medium-term.
Let me add on to this discussion the attempts to do this so far. (Note:
I have not worked on any of them; this is all just FYI).
PR ports/155408 [PATCH] add support for USE_GCC_BUILD to bsd.port.mk
IMHO, necessary but insufficient.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsAndClang
A status report on a package run vs. the clang compiler. Some of the
data may be stale; updates are welcome. This is probably the best
place to start updating data. fwiw, it includes a link to patches
to not only various ports, but also the infrastructure:
http://rainbow-runner.nl/clang/patches/
http://wiki.freebsd.org/SOC2010AndriusMorkunas
This was a Google Summer of Code project: "making ports work with
clang". I do not know the status of this project.
I hope that someone will update the wiki with the latest status on the
latter two projects.
mcl
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