svn commit: r44489 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Gabor Pali
pgj at FreeBSD.org
Tue Apr 8 15:52:53 UTC 2014
Author: pgj
Date: Tue Apr 8 15:52:52 2014
New Revision: 44489
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44489
Log:
- Add 2014Q1 status report GCC in the ports
Submitted by: gerald
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Tue Apr 8 15:50:21 2014 (r44488)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Tue Apr 8 15:52:52 2014 (r44489)
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
<!-- XXX: Keep the number of entries updated -->
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
- contains 31 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+ contains 32 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and
June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -1970,4 +1970,61 @@ device vt_efifb</pre>
Team.</task>
</help>
</project>
+
+ <project cat='ports'>
+ <title>GCC in the Ports Collection</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Gerald</given>
+ <common>Pfeifer</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>gerald at FreeBSD.org</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="http://gcc.gnu.org">Upstream GCC</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>While the age old version of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
+ in the base system is on its way out with &os; 10 and
+ later, there are many users who want (and some platforms which
+ need) to use GCC.</p>
+
+ <p>For that purpose there are various versions of GCC in the ports
+ tree, including <tt>lang/gcc46</tt>, <tt>lang/gcc47</tt>,
+ <tt>lang/gcc48</tt> and <tt>lang/gcc49</tt> which track upstream
+ snapshots of the respective release branches, and more
+ importantly <tt>lang/gcc</tt> which serves as the canonical
+ version of GCC and is the default when a port requests
+ <tt>USE_GCC=yes</tt> as well as for some cases of
+ <tt>USES=compiler</tt>.</p>
+
+ <p>With a lot of help from Christoph Moench-Tegeder who fixed
+ many ports and made a fair number respect <tt>CXXFLAGS</tt>,
+ <tt>LDFLAGS</tt> and friends, we managed to update the canonical
+ version from GCC 4.6.4 to GCC 4.7.3. Many of Christoph's fixes
+ also benefit Clang and other modern compilers.</p>
+
+ <p>For users of <tt>lang/gcc</tt>, this upgrade proved very
+ smooth, and we generally recommend using this port over version
+ specific ones.</p>
+
+ <p>After ten years of service <tt>lang/gcc34</tt> retired, as did
+ <tt>lang/gcc44</tt> after half that timespan.</p>
+
+ <p>On a related note, with the help of &a.marino;, the license of
+ the GCC ports now properly reflects the combination of GPLv3 for
+ the compiler itself and GPLv3 with GCC Runtime Library Exception
+ for the runtime. The latter is the key in making it possible to
+ use GCC for building and distributing non-free software.</p>
+ </body>
+
+ <help>
+ <task>Move <tt>lang/gcc</tt> from GCC 4.7 to GCC 4.8.</task>
+ </help>
+ </project>
</report>
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