On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 01:37:46PM +0100, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28 2021, Jonathan Gray <j...@jsg.id.au> wrote:
> > Is it time to consider changing the gcc default to gnu99?
> Definitely. I have considered this since some time already and feel
> a bit lame for not even proposing it. I think changing such defaults in
> a specific compiler version is not wrong per se, YMMV.
> I think there are two big tests this proposal must pass:
> - base must build and work on all affected architectures
> - a full ports bulk build should be considered successful on sparc64
> The former isn't undoable, it's just harder to get your hands on alpha
> or hppa or sh...
> Another approach that does not require changing base defaults:
> defaulting base-gcc to -std=gnu99 using the ports infrastructure. I'm
> not sure where exactly this could be done, maybe in the compiler wrapper
> scripts we put in ${WRKDIR}/bin?
I did try coming up with a patch to change ports to give -std=gnu99 to
base-gcc by default, but I had a number of failures and decided it would
probably end up with more work. I don't have a problem with defaulting ports
to it, just realize it may not be that easy of a win.
--Kurt
