Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:58:03 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lang/gcc42 on alpha Message-ID: <20080731215803.GA35238@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.10.0807201009280.8835@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> References: <20080708091924.GA9171@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <alpine.LSU.1.10.0807201009280.8835@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
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On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:19:11AM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > Hi Anton, > > On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I've been using lang/gcc42 on alpha for more than a year now. > > My calculation shows that the port was updated 25 times during > > last year. Each time I upgraded the port with no problem, except > > for as failure, which happens on my i386 just the same: > > thanks for the report. This is the first feedback I got during the > more than three years that we have had NOT_FOR_ARCHS=alpha for the > newer lang/gcc ports. > > > Accordingly I wonder why lang/gcc42 is still marked > > NOT_FOR_ARCHS= alpha > > > > Are there other alpha users who have trouble with this port? > > The original reports that triggered this change came from the FreeBSD > Ports Build Cluster. I did some archeology, and here is what I had sent > to a member of the portmgr team back than in response, which resulted in > the suggestion to use NOT_FOR_ARCHS: > > I just wasted a couple of ours bringing sparc64 back to bootstrap-land > for GCC 4.0 and GCC 4.1 because *nobody*, not a single FreeBSD developer > or user apparently tried to build either for many moons. And now the > same is starting for alpha; isn't that a waste of our time, for the sake > of one or two enthusiasts? > > I'm fine giving it a try and remove NOT_FOR_ARCHS=alpha for lang/gcc42. > If there are problems with it, I may ask you for help or put this back > in, though. ;-) Gerald, many thanks. Yes, please do this. I'm happy to help with testing. thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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