Re: Remove USE_GCC_RUNTIME?

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

On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 09:59:16AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > My intention is that any package built using a gcc from pkgsrc
> > should have an explicit dependency on the corresponding gccX-libs.
> 
> That seems slightly overbroad, in that it seems theoretically possible
> it wouldn't have to, but it also seems vastly simplifying and that the
> amount of over-depending is tiny compared to the human cost of dealing
> with the bugs from underdepending.  And, once one starts using gccN, the
> odds that somethhing on your system will depend on gccN-libs is nearly
> unity anyway, so the actual number of cases where gccN-libs is needed on
> a system compared to now should be tiny.

How about only forcing it when USE_LANGUAGES contains c++?

I am unsure how the ABI stability of ordinary libgcc works.

For libstdc++ it's obviously a problem.