Re: GCC withdraw

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:43:53 -0600
On Aug 24, 2013, at 6:11 AM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:

>> In my opinion this just needs to happen, if ports break, we deal with that
> 
>>> on  a case by case basis.
>> 
>> Oh, I remember. mplayer on i386 can't be builded witch clang -- clang
>> don't understand inlined asm.
>> 
>> 
> Well, in this case, you would just have the mplayer maintainer configure the
> port to use gcc for the i386 build of mplayer... problem solved

The problem is that there's a lot of cases in ports where this work needs to be done. That work is ongoing, but isn't done yet. The ports people have indicated that in the 10 time frame may be a bit optimistic...

Warner
Received on Sat Aug 24 2013 - 13:43:56 UTC

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