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* Why is there no GCC package for GCC newer than 4.9.4?Philipp Klaus Krause
`- Re: Why is there no GCC package for GCC newer than 4.9.4?Christian Weisgerber

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Subject: Why is there no GCC package for GCC newer than 4.9.4?
From: Philipp Klaus Krause
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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 08:15 UTC
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From: pkk@spth.de (Philipp Klaus Krause)
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Subject: Why is there no GCC package for GCC newer than 4.9.4?
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As far as I know, OpenBSd comes with ancient GCC 4.2.1 (or
reasonably-new LLVM on architecures for which it is available) since
OpenBSD developers don't like GPLv3. So e.g. for macppc, a lot of
current software cannot be compiled with the default compiler, as it is
written to language standards not supported.

Fortunately, there is a GPLv3 GCC 4.9.4 package that can be used to get
a C++11 compiler.

I'm wondering why there are no packages for GCC newer than 4.9.4. For
C++14 support, one needs GCC 5, for C++17 GCC 7.

Philipp

Subject: Re: Why is there no GCC package for GCC newer than 4.9.4?
From: Christian Weisgerber
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 14:02 UTC
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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
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Subject: Re: Why is there no GCC package for GCC newer than 4.9.4?
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On 2018-10-19, Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> wrote:

> I'm wondering why there are no packages for GCC newer than 4.9.4. For
> C++14 support, one needs GCC 5, for C++17 GCC 7.

Because nobody with the required intersection of interest, time,
and skill has sat down and created ports for newer versions of GCC.
Actually, somebody started a GCC 6 port but hasn't finished it.
(ports/lang/gcc/6, not hooked up to the build.)

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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