I'd love to see egcs as a package for both -current and also -stable... anyone interested in doing it? I would do it if I had the time... (I know, you've heard that before). I'm not really familiar with the grokery/hackery that has been involved in merging gcc into the FreeBSD tree anyway. When gcc changes, how are these changes munged into FreeBSD's gcc ? (Not that gcc has changed much over the last eon!). I wonder if anyone has ever thought about "unbundling" cc(1) like some of the commercial unixen do...and just making it a package...then you could select the cc you wanted from sysinstall... for example, developers may select egcs, standard users may select gcc, other users may select pgcc, others a simple C compiler. Some users won't ever use C++, so why should they get the extra bloat of g++ ?

Of course, this "unbundling" isn't really unbundling, because you can simply pick the compiler you want. It also means 3rd party vendors may be more inclined to provide a compiler one day.

Just some thoughts.

& waits for flames on unbundling &