Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 13:37:58 +0100 (CET) From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, ericbsd@FreeBSD.org, portmgr@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CFD: status of Ada-related ports (including ports-mgmt/synth) Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.21.2001071602390.3725@anthias.pfeifer.com> In-Reply-To: <20191231033439.GD16175@lonesome.com> References: <20191231033439.GD16175@lonesome.com>
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[ I found this in my outgoing folder; ahem. ] On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Mark Linimon wrote: > As of the following commit, lang/gcc6 is no longer supported: > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/Mk/bsd.gcc.mk?revision=521584 GCC 6 hasn't been supported upstream for over a year (end of life) and is not covered by Mk/bsd.gcc.mk (aka USE_GCC) any longer. The port is still in our tree for the time being, though I marked it for expiration end of February - which gives an extra day this year. ;-) > I would like to, if possible, eliminate gcc6, as it merely adds > build time on the package builders. Is this a concern for all architectures, or mostly non-x86? We can always restrict ONLY_FOR_ARCHS further for such ports if those focusing on those architectures are in favor. [ Editorial note: In the meantime I made such a change for lang/gcc48. ] > There is a variant of lang/gcc6 called lang/gcc6-aux, which is now only > required for the Ada-related ports, including ports-mgmt/synth. fwiw, > that port is only available for aarch64/amd64/i386. > > Is anyone willing to take on the work to upgrade our Ada support to > some later compiler, so that we can delete lang/gcc6-aux as well? lang/gcc6-aux/files carries a lot of patches (2500+ lines) that I don't believe should be FreeBSD-local, but upstreamable/upstreamed. Also there are some small local patches, some backports, in lang/gcc7 and later especially, that really matter. Any FreeBSD port around GCC probably would want to use those - which is not the case right now. Gerald
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