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Subject: Re: lang/gcc{33, 34, 40, 41, 42,
	43} and loss of /usr/bin/objformat (was: cvs commit:
	ports/devel/gnustep-make Makefile)
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On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 01:01:52AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > If things go according to my current schedule, lang/gcc41, lang/gcc42 and
> > lang/gcc43 should be fixed properly (i.e. upstream and in the ports) within
> > less than a week for the C and Fortran frontends; Java is more complex and
> > may take a bit longer.
> 
> Since this may affect many of you, let me provide a status update:
> 
> lang/gcc33, lang/gcc34, and lang/gcc40 which are not maintained upstream 
> any longer now received a one-off patch by yours truely.
> 
> I have also patches GCC 4.2 and GCC 4.3 upstream and updated lang/gcc42
> accordingly.
> 
> lang/gcc43 will follow within 48 hours.  Upstream GCC 4.1 and lang/gcc41
> will follow by next Tuesday.

Thanks.

> Older versions of GCC in our ports tree should be removed rather sooner 
> than later.  They have served us well, but it's due time to say Good Bye.

Yeah, the problem is that quite a few ports still require them.  I
guess they should be deprecated with enough grace period to give any
remaining users the chance to step up and fix the code to work with
newer gccs.

Kris