Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/geography/gama

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 10:05:58AM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> I think the whole GCC_REQD thing is stupid and should be ripped out
> completely.
> 
> The only sensible way for someone to build a set of software from pkgsrc is
> to calculate beforehand what GCC they need that is able to build all of it,
> and use that for everything.  I've done this for over 10 years, have put a
> lot of effort into ensuring it works great, and have posted multiple times
> over the years on how this all works, along with implementing the
> *_GCC_RUNTIME stuff so that you do not end up with DEPENDS on an entire
> compiler package.
> 
> Building N versions of lang/gcc at different times depending on which order
> you build packages in and which GCC_REQD you encounter, and ending up with
> multiple libstdc++'s and runtime dependencies on full compiler packages, is
> clearly ridiculous.


Definitely brings us back to the "NetBSD should bootstrap" discussion.