Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:26:55 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [toolchain] svn commit: r474650 - in head/lang: . gcc8 [ not added to bsd.gcc.mk nor to the comment in bsd.default-versions.mk ] Message-ID: <058BCB3E-A6B8-4C0D-9C21-3E83FB9253A6@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.21.1807152111151.5444@anthias.pfeifer.com> References: <56DFBA7C-9527-4EB5-9C6F-1F56945F9F3C@yahoo.com> <alpine.LSU.2.21.1807152111151.5444@anthias.pfeifer.com>
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On 2018-Jul-15, at 12:14 PM, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer.com> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On Sat, 14 Jul 2018, Mark Millard via freebsd-toolchain wrote: >> Looks like gcc8 was not added to, for example, >> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/Mk/bsd.gcc.mk : > > I've done that earlier today: > > r474663 | gerald | 2018-07-15 05:59:51 +0000 (So, 15 Jul 2018) | 6 lines > > Add support for GCC 8 (and the newly added lang/gcc8 port). USE_GCC=8+ > is now feasible, for example. > > PR: 229681 > Submitted by: mi Yep: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-head/2018-July/182111.html vs. https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-head/2018-July/182110.html Yours was just about 2.5 minutes after mine: Gerald Pfeifer gerald at FreeBSD.org Sun Jul 15 05:59:52 UTC 2018 vs. Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com Sun Jul 15 05:57:22 UTC 2018 >> Nor was it added to the comment below in >> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk : >> >> # Possible values: 4.9, 5, 6, 7 >> GCC_DEFAULT?= 6 > > Given that this is still the first release of the GCC 8 series, > I'm a bit hesitant to add it there. Too many folks too eager > running into problems and then not knowing how to go about it. > > I'd rather wait for GCC 8.2 which is due this summer. Ahh. No problem. > (Anyone who really wants to go for it can do this nevertheless, > it's just nothing I'd like to encourage at this point.) > > Hope this makes sense? > Sure. [I tend to do things to see how things are going for newer compiler versions, including for targeting some powerpc* families. So I'm biased to providing early warnings if I run into something new (and I check the status of some long-standing issues). But it turns out that for now I do not have access to such systems. I will at some point but it is not clear when.] === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)
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