Re: kern/59733: NetBSD should ship with gcc14/gcc15

["Martin Husemann via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/59733; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/59733: NetBSD should ship with gcc14/gcc15
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:22:57 +0100

 On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 07:00:01PM +0000, raj_gautam%tuta.io@localhost wrote:
 > Currently, NetBSD ships with GCC 10.5 (nb20231008) which is 5 major versions behind. It is not a critical issue, but it would be nice to have it up-to-date and ready to use in a fresh install. It would also be nice to have all compilers available. I found that gfortran is not available with the gcc shipped with the OS.
 
 New compilers break things all the time and it is *LONG* and *TEDIOUS*
 work to fix all bugs on all supported architectures.
 
 A few architectures already use gcc 14.3 in -current, but it will still
 take months to make that switch for all architectures.
 
 You can install newer gcc versions (including fortran) from pkgsrc
 or binary pkgs easily. But they might not work well on your NetBSD system
 if you are running a less mainstream architecture.
 
 Martin