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This compiler package is not like the lang/gcc4* packages, but rather
the lang/gcc-aux package which exists to bring GNAT, the Ada language
compiler. The lang/gcc-aux package is based on gcc-4.9, and this
package is based on gcc-5. This is the first gcc5 package in pkgsrc,
and it does support C, C++, ObjC, and Fortran in addition to Ada thus
it is very useful, but it does have a different purpose than other
gcc ports.
This port has had minimal testing. I verified GNAT passes 100% of the
testsuite on NetBSD 6.1/amd64, but it has not been tested on any
NetBSD 5, 7.0 or 7.99 platform yet. I don't have any hardware, so it
will require using a VM or having others report failure/success. Due
to similarity with lang/gcc-aux, chances are good that it will build
and function properly on other platforms.
See http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/changes.html for more information about
improvements over the gcc-4.9 series.
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