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Date:      Mon, 18 Aug 2014 23:05:59 -0500
From:      Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r270099 - in stable: 10/contrib/gcc/config/i386 9/contrib/gcc/config/i386
Message-ID:  <38DE0BE3-EE01-4B9C-A604-74F95FD5F084@freebsd.org>
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Il giorno 18/ago/2014, alle ore 20:31, Alexey Dokuchaev =
<danfe@FreeBSD.org> ha scritto:

> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 02:27:21PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>> I personally stopped merging stuff to the stable/8 branch and more =
recently
>> to the stable/9 branch as I don't run those anymore. In the case of =
the
>> stable/8 branch I find the ancient version of binutils a real threat/
>> limitation.
>=20
> Contemporary version of binutils can be installed from the port, =
right?  I
> don't have a problem with it since binutils are relatively fast to =
build
> and releases do not happen that often to become annoying.
>=20


We are talking about updates to the base that may be affected by the =
binutils version.
I have no idea if the base system in stable/8 will work with the version =
in ports but
still that doesn=92t solve the issue one might have merging code that =
expects binutils
2.17.1+ and that will therefore break the tinderbox.


>> I would really suggest people move on to at least stable/9 which has =
all
>> the clang cleanups and should be functionally much better.
>=20
> Clang/LLVM is a nuisance to build, which is one of the reason to avoid =
9+
> on my rusty laptop.  I run -CURRENT more or less happily on modern =
hardware.
>=20

I meant 9.x has cleanups that make the base system build cleanly with =
both clang and gcc.
8.x has been lagging many suchcleanups.
You can disable building clang in /etc/src.conf, and I actually do that =
when testing crossbuilds.

Pedro.





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