cvs commit: ports/lang/gcc40 Makefile distinfo pkg-plist

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 09:30:14PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Sun, 22 May 2005, David O'Brien wrote:
> >> However, I think we should see to use one of the regular ports in the 
> >> future instead of having a special port just for the purpose of building 
> >> OpenOffice.org.
> > At the moment gcc-ooo has some needed patches that were rejected for GCC
> > 3.4.  So we have no choice - unless we add the patches to the gcc34 port.
> > I investigated doing that, but I wasn't comfortable with the changes the
> > patches make to add them to gcc34 for general use.
> 
> Yes, in that case we shouldn't do that.  However, I wonder whether it's
> really necessary to keep gcc-ooo as a port of its own instead of making
> it a child port of the main gcc34 port which carries additional patches?

I thought about that, but ...
 
> Alternatively, how about giving the gcc40 port a try?

I see the value in having a GCC port that is exactly what the
OpenOffice.org developer team uses.  OOo is such a demanding application
I didn't want to add any road blocks to the FreeBSD OOo port maintainer.
 
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)