Re: patch to add AES intrinsics to gcc

On 08/25/13 18:41, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2013, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
>> I object. Many ports that compiles perfectly on gcc 4.2.1 can't be 
>> compiled with lang/gcc. I checked this once and the number of ports 
>> that require strictly gcc 4.2.1 was bigger for me then number of 
>> ports that can't be compiled with clang but fill fine on lang/gcc.
>>
>> I'll gonna recheck whether lang/gcc42 is sufficient for them. But I 
>> have that bad feeling...
> If there are ports that use USE_GCC=any and do not build with
> lang/gcc, these should have USE_GCC=4.2 -- without a '+'! --
> not USE_GCC=any.
>
> It'll be great if you can fix any such port.

It would be particularly nice if we had a port with FreeBSD's many
patches to 4.2. lang/gcc42 (and 46 and lang/gcc) do not build on
powerpc64, for example, while our in-tree GCC does.
-Nathan