Re: Building tools on current

[D'Arcy Cain <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On 01/29/2018 03:57 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 03:44:17PM -0600, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
>> So why are all those files still there?  If they have been deprecated or
>> moved, shouldn't postinstall have removed them?  What would happen if I
>> removed those as well as other old files in /bin, /usr/lib and /lib?  In
>> particular, why do I need gcc if I have converted to an LLVM system?
> 
> gcc is not marked obsolete just because yhou are building with LLVM.
> That is pretty intentional, actually.

So if I have rebuilt kernel, userland and pkgsrc multiple times since
switching to LLVM can I safely remove those files?  I think I can see
why one wouldn't want to blindly remove them but I am pretty sure that I
don't have anything left that uses them.

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