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RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> writes:

> On Monday 28 March 2005 17:00, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> > If you have different versions of gcc installed, which version is used
> > then when you run a "portupgrade somepackage" ?
> > I know a package can give the needed version itself, but what if the
> > port does not do so? Is the system's default run then or what?
> 
> If a port needs a specific version it will have it as a build dependence and 
> invoke the specific executable e.g. gcc32

And if it doesn't, then my quick look at bsd.gcc.mk makes me think it
will use whatever "gcc" executable shows up first on the PATH.

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/