From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 17 22:05:00 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A58E316A41F for ; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:05:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerald@pfeifer.com) Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.131.111.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4653143D45 for ; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:05:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerald@pfeifer.com) Received: from [128.131.111.48] (pulcherrima [128.131.111.48]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74B4013787; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 00:04:54 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 00:04:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Jim Trigg , Patrick Dung In-Reply-To: <20050902165239.9726.qmail@web54314.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20050902165239.9726.qmail@web54314.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: ssteward@AccessPDF.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request gcc 34 port build gcj X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:05:00 -0000 On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Jim Trigg wrote: >> I really would prefer not to reenable the (relatively weak) Java >> frontend in the lang/gcc34 port for the sake of a single port. >> >> And Java is sufficiently huge a frontend, with the library, that >> I'd prefer not to burden FreeBSD 4.x users who just need to use >> lang/gcc34 to build other ports with it. >> >> What do others think? (One way to address this would be for me >> to relinguish the lang/gcc34 port as maintainer so that someone >> else can then make this change.) > Maybe create a gcj34 port which depends on gcc34 and on which pdftk can > depend? Sorry for not responding earlier -- I suffered severe backlog due to travelling and broken hardware. This was suggested twice, and it would address the issue of keeping the gcc34 port small. It would, however, not address the issues of adding extra complexity to the gcc34 port and adding the weak Java frontend to be found in GCC 3.4 (compared to GCC 4.1). Again, once we have a volunteer to adopt the lang/gcc34 and make these changes, I will hand over maintainership. I surely do not want to stand in the way on this. On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Patrick Dung wrote: > Would you please brifely explain the changes/difference for building > gcj for gcc 3.x and gcc 4.x port? There shouldn't be much of a difference in how GCC is configured and built. The package lists will differ and so forth, and one may need to check the static versus shared library cases and so forth, but nothing absolutely different. What is the problem pdftk exhibits with current versions of GCC? What do the upstream authors say? Can this be reproduced on GNU/Linux as well? Gerald