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Date:      Thu, 14 Jan 2016 16:46:22 -0500
From:      Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Steven Hartland <steven@multiplay.co.uk>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r294029 - in head/sys/boot/efi: . boot1 loader
Message-ID:  <5698172E.6040107@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <569812A6.9020101@freebsd.org>
References:  <201601141853.u0EIrshB007863@repo.freebsd.org> <56980BAE.6070304@freebsd.org> <569812A6.9020101@freebsd.org>

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El 14/01/2016 a las 16:27, Steven Hartland escribió:
>
>
> On 14/01/2016 20:57, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 01/14/16 10:53, Steven Hartland wrote:
>>> Author: smh
>>> Date: Thu Jan 14 18:53:54 2016
>>> New Revision: 294029
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/294029
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>    Only build EFI components on supported compilers
>>>       As the in-tree GCC does not support __attribute__((ms_abi)) 
>>> EFI can only
>>>    be built with Clang.
>>>       The EFI loader and boot1 validated this, but unused libefi was 
>>> still built
>>>    causing issues under GCC after warnings where enabled by r293724.
>>>       Disable building all of EFI when the selected compiler is GCC.
>>
>> How about with newer-than-4.2 versions of GCC? Surely this *is* 
>> supported in newer compilers. Do we need some build infrastructure to 
>> how about the compiler version as well as type?
>> -Nathan
>
> If it is then even without this change you wouldn't have have got the 
> EFI loader or boot1, just an unused libefi.
>
> This change ensures that builds with in-tree Clang and GCC build on 
> all platforms, even if GCC doesn't build the EFI components.
>
> If someone that uses none in-tree GCC has some time to dedicate to 
> make this work that would be great :)
>

Specially since the gcc-4.2 compiler will be axed mercilessly before 
11.0-RELEASE.

Pedro.




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