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Originally Posted by Oko
As of LyX port of OpenBSD I can say just one thing. LyX uses Qt 4.5 libraries.
Qt 4.xxx requires GCC version of 4.xxx or above. GCC 4.xxx doesn't compile on OpenBSD due to bugs. Hence you can not have Qt 4.xxx on OpenBSD and in turn you can not have KDE 4.xxx nor LyX in OpenBSD.
GCC upstream has never been interested in OpenBSD patches. They are interested only in supporting Linux. OpenBSD community at this point has completely given up on GCC and we are eagerly awaiting PCC. Fortunately unlike GCC bloat PCC is C only compiler so it can not compile C++ code used for Qt. I am not aware that there is much concern about that in OpenBSD community as there is little love for C++ anyway.
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GCC 4.x is actually in the source tree and in the ports tree, if you read recent commits you can see some work is being made for the system to compile to with GCC4 (...4.2.x branch, as newer releases are now GPLv3 licenced).
PCC is more of a long term solution, and right now, that's pretty much stalled right now.. as some significant work remains, unfortunately.