[MacPorts] #49227: gcc5 @5.2.0: fix gcj

MacPorts noreply at macports.org
Mon Oct 19 09:36:46 PDT 2015


#49227: gcc5 @5.2.0: fix gcj
------------------------------------+----------------------
  Reporter:  howarth.at.macports@…  |      Owner:  mww@…
      Type:  defect                 |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal                 |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports                  |    Version:  2.3.4
Resolution:                         |   Keywords:  haspatch
      Port:  gcc5                   |
------------------------------------+----------------------

Comment (by graziosi.angelo@…):

 Replying to [comment:10 jeremyhu@…]:
 > graziosi.angelo, you don't understand potential fallout to compiler
 changes.
 >
 > At worst, the compiler produces bad code and anything that it compiled
 needs to be recompiled.  We don't have a mechanism for triggering that, so
 we need to be extra careful taking toolchain changes.

 Exactly what happens at (almost) every new compiler release. Recently,
 MSYS2/MINGW64, for having adopted GCC-5.2, had to recompile *all* its
 packages, and a few didn't rebuilt any more and are out of distribution..
 On OSX and friends, things are no better..

 > If upstream doesn't approve it, we should be even more cautious.

-- 
Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/49227#comment:11>
MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/>
Ports system for OS X


More information about the macports-tickets mailing list