Re: gcc.mk: adjusting charconv to follow the limited-versions guidance

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

On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 04:01:17PM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> Just for the record, I do not like the way that NetBSD-specific versioning
> is being hard-coded in a platform-agnostic file.  This may well be improving
> the situation on NetBSD, but making it worse on a different platform with
> different GCC versions in its base system (for example if it ships GCC 9 but
> now has a dependency on GCC 10 even though its native GCC 9 is absolutely
> fine).

For this reason I prefer the practice of "pinning it to netbsd gcc"
not to be done for micro-features like charconv (it's fine for
wide-reaching things where the gcc support evolves slowly over
time like "c++11").