gcc-6

[Chris Jones]

On 19/05/16 13:51, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Thursday May 19 2016 11:22:35 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>
>> So it seems that the only feasible things are skipping the ObjC and/or ObjC++ compilers, and the Java compiler. I'll try to round up my "little" experiment to assess if that makes a lot of difference in installation footprint.
>
> Skipping those components gives me a destroot directory that is 185Mb big, as opposed to the 359Mb from the binary package for 10.9 . I must add that I build with optflags="-Os -march=core2", though; -Os overriding GCC's default -O2 may have made some difference too.
>
> Still, a pretty significant reduction in size that might interest users who install gcc only because they need a Fortran compiler. Ports that used to depend simply on port:gccXY because they need either Java or Fortran will need to change to using a path: style dependency on a representative component; that should call for installation of the "uncut" port if that component is missing.

For me, thats not enough of a saving to warrant the general disturbance 
such a split would cause.

Chris