Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:25:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang/gcc/files java-patch-hier patch-unwind-ia64.h Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1109260110280.4092@gerinyyl.fvgr> In-Reply-To: <4E7FAABC.2070206@FreeBSD.org> References: <201109252159.p8PLxRLO047800@repoman.freebsd.org> <4E7FAABC.2070206@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Doug Barton wrote: > Given that we already have versioned gcc ports what is the value of > adding an unversioned, um, version. :) That's a fair question -- you just have been a bit too quick while I have been working on an updated pkg-plist and the commit message. :-) Basically the purpose is to establish a "preferred" version of GCC for Joe User and Jane Porter. And keep rebuilds of that one to a minimum. On the first, a step on a path towards establishing a preferred version of GCC amidst all the flavors, this is similar to the current USE_FORTRAN=yes which transparently picks a preferred version of GCC already. That used to be lang/gcc45 and has been upgraded to lang/gcc46 recently after an appropriate pointyhat run. On the second, see PR 156857 for a concrete user request and some thinking around that. This port of GCC, lang/gcc, will always correspond to one of the ports that are tracking snapshots and conflict with that one, lang/gcc46 for now. As a user, you have the choice to go for the release-based version which is only updated every couple of months, or track the current snapshot. Gerald PS: And some of the other lang/gcc* ports really need to die. I have spent quite some time towards paving that road for lang/gcc34 where lang/objc and some annoying ports around g77 (cad/sceptre and science/elmer-matc, science/elmerpost) are the major hold offs, and lang/gcc44 which we carry exclusively for the sake of cad/salome.
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