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Re: gcc 7.5.0 as dependency for tcsh in NetBSD-8?



On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 11:10:40PM -0400, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> Well, the "don't select GCC 6" changes unmasked another issue that's
> still there, as I touched on a bit in the other email thread here. For
> now, I restored the GCC 6 handling that was there and left your other
> changes as-is. I tested this fixed the issue on 8.2_STABLE and didn't
> cause any issues on 9.2_STABLE (not that that would have been happening
> before, either). That is a bit of a kludge, except, if we can use GCC 6
> in some circumstances, that handling code should be there anyway.
> 
> The way the code handles certain aspects of versioning and decisions
> seems to need further investigation. At a minimum, more comments would
> help. I'm too burned out at the moment to tangle with it.

Well, regardless, thank you.


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