svn commit: r49861 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sun Jan 15 06:26:20 UTC 2017

Author: bjk
Date: Sun Jan 15 06:26:19 2017
New Revision: 49861
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49861

Log:
  Add 2016Q4 GCC entry from gerald

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml	Sun Jan 15 06:18:38 2017	(r49860)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml	Sun Jan 15 06:26:19 2017	(r49861)
@@ -1347,4 +1347,67 @@
 	ports.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='ports'>
+    <title>GCC (GNU Compiler Collection)</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Gerald</given>
+	  <common>Pfeifer</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>gerald at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Andreas</given>
+	  <common>Tobler</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>andreast at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Antoine</given>
+	  <common>Brodin</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>antoine at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://gcc.gnu.org">GCC Home Page</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>Long awaited, the update to GCC 4.9 as the default version of
+	GCC in the Ports Collection (<tt>lang/gcc</tt> port,
+	<tt>USE_GCC=yes</tt> in Makefiles) has arrived, up from GCC 4.8.
+	This brings quite a number of improvements, see <a
+	  href="https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html">https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html</a>
+	for details.</p>
+
+      <p><tt>lang/gcc49</tt> has moved to the GCC 4.9.4 release which
+	marks the closure of the GCC 4.9 branch and release series.</p>
+
+      <p>(Yes, this means we should rather get the next version
+	upgrade for <tt>lang/gcc</tt> in place soon.  That update per se
+	is straightforward, but any help in addressing the fallout of
+	broken ports would be great — please let us know if you
+	want to help!)</p>
+
+      <p><tt>lang/gcc6</tt> has been updated first to GCC 6.2 and then
+	GCC 6.3, bringing a fair number of fixes, and should now be
+	finely suitable for production use.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Update <tt>lang/gcc</tt> (and hence <tt>USE_GCC=yes</tt>)
+	to GCC 5.</task>
+
+      <task>Support for AArch64.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
