Re: patch to add AES intrinsics to gcc

On 23 Aug 2013, at 10:58, Bernhard Fr=F6hlich <decke@freebsd.org> wrote:

> I don't know if you are aware that IF you really do that we will have ser=
ious
> problems to ship packages for 10. USE_GCC=3Dany is the fallback in the
> portstree for all ports that are unable to build with clang which was int=
roduced
> when HEAD switched to clang as default cc. Right now there are 150 ports =
in
> the tree that use this fallback and quite a few of them are high profile =
ports:
> =

> the highlights:
> audio/nas devel/mingw32-binutils emulators/qemu emulators/virtualbox-ose
> emulators/wine lang/go lang/v8 mail/courier math/fftw3 multimedia/libxine
> multimedia/gstreamer multimedia/gstreamer-plugins multimedia/x264
> security/clamav
> =

> the full list:
> http://dpaste.com/1354075/
> =

> A possible hack could be to add a check for USE_GCC=3Dany to behave like
> a USE_GCC=3Dyes on HEAD on the affected platforms. This pulls in lang/gcc
> from ports for a lot of people on HEAD I suppose.
> =

> We certainly need to do that switch to remove the ancient gcc from base
> some time but with my portmgr hat on I can only say we don't plan to do t=
hat
> before 10.0 especially not if we are only talking about a few weeks time =
window.

That is unfortunate.  We have said for over a year that 10.0 should not shi=
p with gcc.  I can delay committing the patch to flip the switch until late=
r in the code slush, if re approves, but ports that require gcc should be b=
uilding with gcc from ports (which will also improve code quality, as gcc 4=
..6/7 produce significantly better code than 4.2.1).

David

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