freebsd-dev/tools/build/options/WITH_SYSTEM_COMPILER
Ed Maste 57f804675e 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  GCC has served us well, but version 4.2.1 is
obsolete and not used by default on any architecture in FreeBSD.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
2020-02-29 03:25:51 +00:00

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.\" $FreeBSD$
Set to opportunistically skip building a cross-compiler during the
bootstrap phase of the build.
If the currently installed compiler matches the planned bootstrap compiler
type and revision, then it will not be built.
This does not prevent a compiler from being built for installation though,
only for building one for the build itself.
The
.Va WITHOUT_CLANG
option controls that.