[Bug 245511] lang/gcc9: build with base GCC on powerpc64 elfv1

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--- Comment #29 from Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Piotr Kubaj from comment #22)
> I don't want to open a new bug for that or reopen the old one.
>
> I'd like to get lang/gcc11-devel building because, as I wrote before,
> it serves as CI-like port to make sure it builds. I know no port depends
> on that, but you still added ARM patch :) Could you then patch PPC as well?

The Arm patch is an unfortunate example. It shows a local patch we are
stuck with "forever" and anyone building from pristine upstream sources
will get something not fully compatible. (And I have not added it, just
svn cp-ed it again and again as part of the whole port whenever a new
version came up.)

GCC HEAD, which feeds lang/gcc11-devel, just made C++ 11 a requirement which
means GCC 4.2 is out of the picture for real now.  This renders the situation
quite different, and in any case - yes, let's use this in a CI-like manner
- in the sense of testing close to upstream and working to tackle things
upstream.


To summarize, let's focus on gcc9-devel and the gcc10/gcc10-devel ports with
priority to ensure those are fine, since those are what our users will
primarily run for the next year.

And in parallel work upstream for anything that's needed for gcc11-devel.
Thanks to weekly snapshots we'll quickly pick up any changes.

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