From 57f804675e65951d630a38d94c07be4a27ae4053 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ed Maste Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 03:25:51 +0000 Subject: remove GCC 4.2.1 build infrastructure As described in Warner's email message[1] to the FreeBSD-arch mailing list we have reached GCC 4.2.1's retirement date. At this time all supported architectures either use in-tree Clang, or rely on external toolchain (i.e., a contemporary GCC version from ports). GCC 4.2.1 was released July 18, 2007 and was imported into FreeBSD later that year, in r171825. GCC has served us well, but version 4.2.1 is obsolete and not used by default on any architecture in FreeBSD. It does not support modern C and does not support arm64 or RISC-V. Thanks to everyone responsible for maintaining, updating, and testing GCC in the FreeBSD base system over the years. So long, and thanks for all the fish. [1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2020-January/019823.html PR: 228919 Reviewed by: brooks, imp Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23124 --- UPDATING | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'UPDATING') diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index 7d4586a8f7c6a..4f198da2ff33b 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 13.x IS SLOW: disable the most expensive debugging functionality run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".) +20200229: + GCC 4.2.1 has been removed from the tree. The WITH_GCC, + WITH_GCC_BOOTSTRAP, and WITH_GNUCXX options are no longer available. + Users who wish to build FreeBSD with GCC must use the external toolchain + ports or packages. + 20200220: ncurses has been updated to a newer version (6.2-20200215). Given the ABI has changed, users will have to rebuild all the ports that are linked to -- cgit v1.2.3