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FreeBSD goes egcs
- To: luc_m@videotron.ca
- Subject: FreeBSD goes egcs
- From: Marc van Woerkom <van.woerkom@netcologne.de>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 03:05:10 +0200 (CEST)
- CC: libstdc++-v3@cygnus.com
> So far, all I can see is that the problem won't get adressed because
> each party seems to be pointing the other for the reason why libstdc++v3
> won't build on FreeBSD.
Don't despair, matters will improve:
Today David committed egcs sources to the src/contrib directory of the
FreeBSD -current source tree!
The committed egcs is a 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 with a couple of FreeBSD
patches - I have not checked and built yet.
Next to ports/lang/egcs there also showed up a ports/lang/egcs-devel
during todays cvsup import.
What does this mean?
-current is the development tree of the FreeBSD system that will
become FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE in about a year.
Recent discussion on the freebsd-current mailing list showed
consensus that -current will switch to egcs soon, mostly because
gcc 2.7.2.1's C++ support is not adequate anymore -that's why it
is clear that David et al will tackle libstdc++!- the argument
against the move to egcs was the danger to loose system stability.
but heck, that's what -current for!
So an egcs version a bit behind the development version will
become -current system compiler and a bunch of daemons will
put their forks into egcs and the system to make it solid.
Regards,
Marc