Re: trouble building packages on netbsd-current

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

* On 2026-09-11 at 05:31 BST, Brett Lymn wrote:

> All in all, it seems to me like this is the system compiler being a lot
> stricter in what it will allow and breaking the package building.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?

Correct, releases since 14 are getting significantly stricter:

  https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-14/porting_to.html
  https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-15/porting_to.html
  https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-16/porting_to.html

I've been performing daily bulk builds on 14 for a long time now, and 15 
for a bit.  There is a huge amount of software that breaks (I stopped 
building with 15 because too much was broken, so dependencies never got 
a chance to be built).

I'm yet to be convinced to move up from GCC 13 for my SmartOS builds.  I 
just don't see any benefits, and an avalanche of downsides.

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