As described in Warner's email message[1] to the FreeBSD-arch mailing
list we have reached GCC 4.2.1's retirement date. At this time all
supported architectures either use in-tree Clang, or rely on external
toolchain (i.e., a contemporary GCC version from ports).
GCC 4.2.1 was released July 18, 2007 and was imported into FreeBSD later
that year, in r171825. GCC has served us well, but version 4.2.1 is
obsolete and not used by default on any architecture in FreeBSD. It
does not support modern C and does not support arm64 or RISC-V.
Thanks to everyone responsible for maintaining, updating, and testing
GCC in the FreeBSD base system over the years.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
[1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2020-January/019823.html
PR: 228919
Reviewed by: brooks, imp
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23124
The main problem was bitrot after elftoolchain being swapped in for the
GNU toolchain.
This also reworks how the list of 'host allowed' libraries is determined
to only allow INTERNALLIBs, which is needed for libelftc to come in.
For usr.bin/readelf use the same hack, as libelf and libdward, to bring in
the needed sys/ headers for host builds. This has not yet been a problem due
to readelf not being built as a host tool in buildworld. This is possible
in the meta build though when building the toolchain.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
The option was added only to ease the transition from GNU Binutils to
ELF Tool Chain tools, and that process is now complete (for the viable
replacements). Noting the removal in UPDATING is sufficient as we have
not shipped a release with the option.
Reviewed by: brooks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3240
