svn commit: r365725 - head/lang/gcc5

Tijl Coosemans tijl at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 25 15:25:18 UTC 2014


On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:15:08 +0200 (CEST) Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be better to move the port to lang/gcc50?  Presumably
> > the tools will also be gcc50, g++50 etc. right?
> 
> No. :-)
> 
> GCC changed the versioning scheme similar to FreeBSD: the next
> major releases after GCC 4.8 and GCC 4.9 are going to be GCC 5,
> GCC 6, GCC 7, and so forth.
> 
> Accordingly I am planning to call the tools gcc5, g++5, gfortran5, 
> and gcj5, respectively (and documented this in lang/gcc5/pkg-descr).
> Otherwise, we'd be changing that for bugfix releases.
> 
> Does that make sense?

Yes :) So what would have been 5.0.1 will now be 5.1 and the
old 5.1 becomes 6.0.


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