Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#50904 assigned defect
gcc: change dist_subdir
| Reported by: | mojca (Mojca Miklavec) | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Port: | gcc43 gcc44 gcc45 gcc46 gcc47 gcc48 gcc49 gcc5 gcc6 gcc7 |
Description
The crossgcc PortGroup sets
dist_subdir gcc
This means that we end up with two copies of each version of gcc, one in gcc and the other one in gcc${version}.
It would be great if gcc ports would also store the distfiles to /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/gcc/.
Change History (7)
comment:1 Changed 7 years ago by kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)
| Owner: | changed from mww@… to macports-tickets@… |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by raimue (Rainer Müller)
comment:3 Changed 7 years ago by mojca (Mojca Miklavec)
Oh, sorry. I didn't notice that.
I don't have a Mac at hand: how does that work for 4.7 etc? Doesn't that end up under gcc4 as opposed to gcc47?
Just curious: what are the advantages of using gcc7 as opposed to using plain gcc?
I'm linking this to PR #788.
comment:4 Changed 7 years ago by raimue (Rainer Müller)
| Port: | gcc7 added |
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You are right, it would use gcc4 instead of the correct gcc47. I guess I went with gcc[lindex [split ${version} .] 0] because that matches the dist_subdir of gcc >= 5. If we would want to switch to a plain gcc, we need the change in the gcc ports first.
comment:5 Changed 7 years ago by mojca (Mojca Miklavec)
We could of course fix the expression to end up with the correct subdir. It's just that I don't see a huge benefit, in particular not if some files are shared between different versions of gcc.
Do you see any potential problems with switching to gcc distname in all gcc ports?
comment:6 Changed 7 years ago by raimue (Rainer Müller)
I see no downsides of using a shared directory for all gcc ports. The only change would be that a port clean would produce a warning about other distfiles in this directory, but the warning is harmless:
$ sudo port clean --dist gcc6 ---> Cleaning gcc6 Warning: Distfiles directory '/opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/gcc' may contain distfiles needed for other ports, use the -f flag to force removal
As of [067574baa2b43cc841f4d3b77b416772cafbba62/macports-ports], crossgcc is using
dist_subdir gcc[lindex [split ${version} .] 0]However, for some ports we also download newlib and its tarball would still end up multiple times in each gcc directory.