Versions of GCC

There are many versions of gcc in the ports tree.

This page discusses the list of ports that we should try to update to reduce the dependencies.

Current versions in the tree

/!\ The usage column does not include ports that hardwire the version. See HardcodedGCCVersions for that list.

port

usage

status

comments

gcc4.8

unsupported

gcc6-aux

Ada-language ports

supported

defined in Mk/Uses/ada.mk

gcc7

unsupported

gcc8

tree-wide default (powerpcspe)

supported

defined in Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk

gcc9

supported

gcc10

tree-wide default (all but powerpcspe)

supported

defined in Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk; new default as of see PR 246700

gcc11-devel

testing

testing

Dependency statistics

Processing INDEX-13 on amd64 20210115 (and deleting self-references) produces:

       3  gcc4
       0  gcc5
      49  gcc6
       0  gcc7
       9  gcc8
      14  gcc9
    1806  gcc10
       0  gcc11


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ObsoleteGCCVersions (last edited 2021-01-15T15:47:40+0000 by MarkLinimon)