from Greg Troxel:
"Thomas Mueller" <mueller6725%twc.com@localhost> writes:
What is the current status of pkgsrc on FreeBSD?
I hope someone who has used pkgsrc on FreeBSD recently can say. My
vague impression from the lists over the last year or so is that it
should basically work but that somewhat more packages are likely
troubled than on NetBSD/illumos/Linux.
I would expect base clang to work; pkgsrc uses clang on mac, and people
use it on netbsd.
I would suggest trying it and reporting any specific problems.
On a fresh installation of FreeBSD, clang in base is the only C/C++ compiler.
I believe there is also the possibility to build gcc with base, but that would be the outdated gcc-4.2.1, the last version before the switch from GPL 2 to GPL 3.
I read on this emailing list that any substantial update to the base system would require rebootstrapping pkgsrc, but then I might have a version of gcc built.
I am still some way from trying pkgsrc on FreeBSD because of trying to cross-compile Linux and then needing to update NetBSD installations.
Tom