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Date:      Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:22:45 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org, Alexander Churanov <alexanderchuranov@gmail.com>, "Shaowei Wang \(wsw\)" <wsw1wsw2@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: llvm/clang a tool chain or just a compiler for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <877hxlx0l6.fsf@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <20090722160547.GU55190@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> (Kostik Belousov's message of "Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:05:47 %2B0300")
References:  <2e566b9e0907202134h5568a06bl33a8d95ac9c7f845@mail.gmail.com> <20090721131735.GA18929@freebsd.org> <2e566b9e0907211818k1a52ef7am5c681a6f4ffc868c@mail.gmail.com> <864ot5jy3f.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20090722141756.GQ55190@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <3cb459ed0907220823q2376f545x44c0972a989a4b72@mail.gmail.com> <20090722160547.GU55190@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:05:47 +0300, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I know some ports using "USE_GCC" knob of /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gcc.mk .
>> Is this the same as you suggest?
>
> No. And this was actually not my idea.
>
> The proposal is to have portmgr-selected and approved version of gcc,
> installed from port and used to build ports. The base (g)cc is used
> only to build base.
>
> Such divorce seems to be beneficial both to base compiler, and for
> ports.

ISTR this is what pkgsrc does.  It isn't a very bad idea, and it may
give ports/ a bit of freedom about the version of the compiler they can
use for special OPTIONS= items like SSE instruction optimizations and
so on.


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