Re: GCC withdraw

From: Ian Lepore <ian_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 08:21:09 -0600
On Sat, 2013-08-24 at 23:44 +0100, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2013, at 23:42, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw_at_zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
> 
> > And i found PR about clang and mplayer: ports/176272
> > This PR contains log with build error log.
> 
> Please file clang bugs at http://llvm.org/bugs/
> 
> David
> 

And THIS is a major reason why FreeBSD needs a compiler in base instead
of all tools being ports.  The last thing we need is to start responding
to every problem with "this is not my problem, go file a report
upstream."  If we're already doing it for the compiler that's supposed
to be the new supported tool, how much worse will peoples' experience be
when we assert no ownership or responsibility for a toolchain at all?

-- Ian
Received on Sun Aug 25 2013 - 12:21:15 UTC

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