On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 12:23:52AM +0100, Pascal Stumpf wrote:
> > Following the binutils 2.40 update, I enabled the build of gas in the
> > binutils package. This means we can now remove devel/gas.
> >
> > CC'ed MAINTAINER (pascal@)
> >
> > Comments? OK to remove it?
>
> You need to test if lang/gcc/* still works fine with the newer gas from
> binutils, on aarch64, arm, powerpc64 and riscv64. Also keep in mind that
> this will be the major test case for future binutils updates. If that's
> fine (and everything works), go for it.
I will be honest here, I had apparently managed to convince myself at
some point that devel/gas was a leaf port which was used around the
OpenBSD/arm64 bringup time and was never updated since. And of course,
I thus didn't bother to check for any usage in the ports tree... This
is of course wrong. Sorry about this.
It's now clear that a lot of testing work would have to be done if we
want to use gas from the binutils port, and then again for each binutils
update. I'm in no position of testing on !amd64 platforms at this point,
so this rules it out for now anyway.
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