The description is clearly what effect the knob has when set, so the
additional text was unnecessary.
Reviewed by: jhb, se
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29583
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 GCC has served us well, but version 4.2.1 is
obsolete and not used by default on any architecture in FreeBSD.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
This will still build the compiler for the target but will not build the
bootstrap cross-compiler in the cross-tools phase. Other toolchain
bootstrapping, such as elftoolchan and binutils, currently still occurs.
This will utilize the default CC (cc, /usr/bin/cc) as an external compiler.
This is planned to be on-by-default eventually.
This will utilize the __FreeBSD_cc_version compiler macro defined in the
source tree and compare it to CC's version. If they match then the
cross-compiler is skipped. If [X]CC is an external compiler (absolute
path) or WITHOUT_CROSS_COMPILER is already set, then this logic is skipped.
If the expected bootstrap compiler type no longer matches the found CC
compiler type (clang vs gcc), then the logic is skipped. As an extra
safety check the version number is also compared from the compiler to
the tree version.
Clang:
The macro FREEBSD_CC_VERSION is defined in:
lib/clang/include/clang/Basic/Version.inc
For clang -target will be used if TARGET_ARCH != MACHINE_ARCH. This
is from the current external toolchain logic. There is currently an
assumption that the host compiler can build the TARGET_ARCH. This
will usually be the case since we don't conditionalize target arch
support in clang, but it will break when introducing new
architectures. This problem is mitigated by incrementing the version
when adding new architectures.
GCC:
The macro FBSD_CC_VER is defined in:
gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools/freebsd-native.h
For GCC there is no simple -target support when TARGET_ARCH !=
MACHINE_ARCH. In this case the opportunistic skip is not done. If we
add proper support for this case in external toolchain logic then it
will be fine to enable.
This relies on the macros being incremented whenever any change occurs
to these compilers that warrant rebuilding files. It also should never
repeat earlier values.
Reviewed by: brooks, bapt, imp
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6357
