On Apr 4, 2014, at 6:55 AM, David Chisnall <thera...@freebsd.org> wrote:

> If we could build base with gcc47 from ports, that would be okay, because 
> then we'd have a modern C/C++ compiler in the base system and a modern(ish - 
> 4.8 / 4.9 would be better, but 4.7 is a reasonable baseline) C/C++ compiler 
> in ports to drive an external toolchain.

I’m targeting forward porting the “interesting” FreeBSD specific gcc to 4.8 and 
4.9, and then working out the uber-ugly bootstrap we need to do if we are going 
to support building the tree from scratch with it.

“Interesting” doesn’t include: new instruction support, apple changes, etc. 
Someone else will need to do that. The former isn’t that big a deal, since we 
mostly back ported that stuff. The latter was added after I started this 
project and I decided IDGAS about that functionality and it would be a 
distraction to the main thrust of the project. I’m happy of SEGAS on it though.

Warner

IDGAS — I don’t Give …
SEGAS — Someone else gives…


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