On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Christophe <[email protected]> wrote:
> ----- Renato Botelho <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Christophe <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> > ----- Doug Barton <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> >> On 6/4/2012 3:23 PM, Dario Niedermann wrote:
>> >> > Il 05/06/2012 alle 00:03, Haroldo Santos ha scritto:
>> >> >
>> >> >> The message
>> >> >>
>> >> >> actions.c:462: *internal compiler error*: in smallest_mode_for_size, at
>> >> >> stor-layout.c:219
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Indicates that this is a gcc specific bug. As this is an error of an 
>> >> >> old
>> >> >> version I dont know if developers will be motivated to fix it if it 
>> >> >> does
>> >> >> not appears in newer versions.
>> >> >
>> >> > I thought so, but I was wondering if there was a known workaround that
>> >> > could be included in WMaker's code so as to make it more portable.
>> >>
>> >> This issue will affect FreeBSD as well, since our default compiler is
>> >> still 4.2.
>> >>
>> >> Doug
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > If you allow me to participate in this discussion, I'd raise the fact that 
>> > this probably means that it is time for FreeBSD to switch to a newer 
>> > version of gcc? Or at least back-port the fix in the 4.2.4 and propose a 
>> > fixed gcc 4.2.5.
>> >
>> > On the other hand, I had a quick look at the corresponding lines in 
>> > wmaker's source but could not find any construct that looked like could be 
>> > the cause of the bug. So if you could post the offending line, we could 
>> > see what we could consider.
>>
>> FreeBSD is moving to clang instead of a new gcc version because
>> of the GPLv3 license.
>>
>> There is newer gcc versions available on ports collection, but the
>> default on src is 4.2.1, the last released under GPLv2, but add this
>> as a dependency to build wmaker is not a good idea.
>>
>> Regards
>> --
>> Renato Botelho
>
> In this case, let's make this simple: just compile wmaker with llvm/clang! If 
> you have issues with clang, I'd be more than happy to help and propose 
> patches!

clang will be default compiler on FreeBSD 10.0, for now, we
still need to build things with gcc.

-- 
Renato Botelho


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