On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, John Marino wrote: > FreeBSD ports have every modern version of GCC in them, nothing stops a > user from building and using the latest GCC on FreeBSD (Note the ports > are well maintained).
Thanks, John. :-) (Note to those not aware I am taking care of those.) On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, Richard Biener wrote: > Well, I'm fine with changing it to i486-freebsd - just keeping > i386-freebsd listed but deprecating i386 looks odd. FreeBSD actually does not support i386 anymore either, this is just a way of referring to 32-bit x86. Cf. gcc/config/i386/freebsd.h /* Support for i386 has been removed from FreeBSD 6.0 onward. */ #if FBSD_MAJOR >= 6 #define SUBTARGET32_DEFAULT_CPU "i486" #endif So, making this change definitely should be fine. :-) On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, Steven Bosscher wrote: > The "it's 386, nobody uses it" clause? I wouldn't mind if some other > freebsd tripled would stay on the list, e.g. i686-freebsd. Per the above, i486 would be totally straightforward -- famous last words! -- and Loren reported i686 as working while still more active on the GCC and FreeBSD sides. On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, Richard Biener wrote: > If we deprecate i386 it shouldn't stay as i386-freebsd though. Yes, I can see how this would be confusing, even if (or rather: because?) that i386 actually is not really i386. On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, Steven Bosscher wrote: > But for the build status lists, freebsd, or for that matter any other > BSD variant, is missing from the latest maintained releases. > > The last confirmed build is for GCC 4.4 on i386-unknown-freebsd7.2. > That'd be in 2009... For the record, the reason we don't have those is that people on FreeBSD usually use the ports since, unlike most GNU/Linux distributions, those also are easy to build from source and the ports have been moving along GCC release branches, but rarely covering an actual GCC release (rather a few days before or after the release, usually). Looking at this thread overall, it occurs to me that nobody so far has objected to just renaming i386-unknown-freebsd* to i?86-unknown-freebsd* (where ? could be a verbatim ? or a 4 or a 6)? Gerald PS. I'll be offline for three weeks now most likely.
