lang/gcc42 on alpha

[Anton Shterenlikht]

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

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