Re: GCC withdraw

On Aug 25, 2013, at 8:21 AM, Ian Lepore wrote:

> 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?

Especially when the external toolchain support is far from well integrated, is lacking key features and needs much documentation on what is there.

One of the huge draws to FreeBSD is that you don't have to play whack-a-mole with gcc/binutils/libc/etc. I'd sure hate to lose that.

Warner