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@@ -1970,4 +1970,61 @@ device vt_efifb Team. + +While the age old version of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) + in the base system is on its way out with &os; 10 and + later, there are many users who want (and some platforms which + need) to use GCC.
+ +For that purpose there are various versions of GCC in the ports + tree, including lang/gcc46, lang/gcc47, + lang/gcc48 and lang/gcc49 which track upstream + snapshots of the respective release branches, and more + importantly lang/gcc which serves as the canonical + version of GCC and is the default when a port requests + USE_GCC=yes as well as for some cases of + USES=compiler.
+ +With a lot of help from Christoph Moench-Tegeder who fixed + many ports and made a fair number respect CXXFLAGS, + LDFLAGS and friends, we managed to update the canonical + version from GCC 4.6.4 to GCC 4.7.3. Many of Christoph's fixes + also benefit Clang and other modern compilers.
+ +For users of lang/gcc, this upgrade proved very + smooth, and we generally recommend using this port over version + specific ones.
+ +After ten years of service lang/gcc34 retired, as did + lang/gcc44 after half that timespan.
+ +On a related note, with the help of &a.marino;, the license of + the GCC ports now properly reflects the combination of GPLv3 for + the compiler itself and GPLv3 with GCC Runtime Library Exception + for the runtime. The latter is the key in making it possible to + use GCC for building and distributing non-free software.
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