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. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkp2H9MACgkQ1g+UGjGGA7ZhzACcDSFJCXpF5ubSCk8cwF62W/by bWMAn3GYSCd93ZyQCsVIepHhDn7yEgaR =gCEW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--
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