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Date:      Sat, 08 Feb 2014 11:47:47 +0100
From:      Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USE_GCC politic -- why so many ports has it as runtime dependency?
Message-ID:  <52F60B53.9050906@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <52F60784.7020706@marino.st>
References:  <1133138786.20140207202949@serebryakov.spb.ru> <A136680D-BD8A-4819-9600-6B640AB16ADE@FreeBSD.org> <1228142552.20140208033432@serebryakov.spb.ru> <52F56EB9.4010700@marino.st> <1955647943.20140208122042@serebryakov.spb.ru> <52F5EB97.5040603@marino.st> <686179459.20140208132425@serebryakov.spb.ru> <52F60649.4010006@gmx.de> <52F60784.7020706@marino.st>

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Am 08.02.2014 11:31, schrieb John Marino:
> On 2/8/2014 11:26, Matthias Andree wrote:
>> Individual examples aside, I recollect that one of the selling points
>> for STAGING, together with pkgNG, was that we would later have the
>> chance to split up one build into multiple binary packages.
>>
>> Not sure what other changes to the infrastructure are required
>> (Mk/bsd.port.mk needs to be taught to build more than one package from
>> the STAGEDIR), but it's not impossible that we'll see features as Lev
>> desires, later, as "perhaps in 2015".
>>
>> And libgcc_s is a dependency you get on practically every port that is
>> compiled with a newer GCC.
> 
> Are you sure this is still true?  Now that FreeBSD supports
> dl_iterate_phdr (and has for a few years now), gcc exceptions are
> handled through rtld, not libgcc_s.  I suspect that newer FreeBSD
> releases have packages without this linked library.  Is there another
> reason to see libgcc_s used these days?

Never bothered to check.



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