Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:16:38 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "portmaster -o" behaves a little strangely (IMHO) Message-ID: <20120124111638.0e6eeb09@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1sWxMLMuw9VKHgB7FkYQ3Pbug%2BCPV2W1hvFFikUn9Etnw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20120124081905.5f497763@cox.net> <4F1EBE51.3050300@freebsd.org> <20120124091457.66d23583@cox.net> <CAN6yY1sWxMLMuw9VKHgB7FkYQ3Pbug%2BCPV2W1hvFFikUn9Etnw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:57:14 -0800 Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> > wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:21:05 -0500 > > Michael Scheidell <scheidell@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> > >> On 1/24/12 9:19 AM, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > >> > # portmaster -CK -o lang/gcc46 gcc-4.4.7.20111108 > >> > > >> what happens with: > >> > >> # portmaster -CK -o lang/gcc46 lang/gcc44 > >> > >> ? > > > > Well, since gcc44 is no longer installed, I just tried: > > > > portmaster -o lang/gcc47 lang/gcc46 > > > > And the actions that started were much more along the lines of what > > I was expecting. =A0The build of gcc47 is currently underway as I > > write this. > > > > So, it seems it's not a good idea to "mix and match" port origins > > with port names in the case of this particular option. =A0Could this > > be considered a "bug"? =A0It certainly seems to at least qualify as a > > "quirk", I would say. =A0:-) > > > > -- > > Conrad J. Sabatier > > conrads@cox.net >=20 > I wanted to note is that you installed lang/gcc46, the development > version of the compiler. It gets updated very frequently and you may > want this, but it is probably better for most people to install > lang/gcc which is the stable version of gcc-4.6. It gets updated only > when a new gcc-4.6 version is released, so it does not get updated > nearly so often. Posts that depend on USE_FORTRAN or USE_GCC=3D4.6+ will > both be happy with lang/gcc, though they will pull in the development > version if no gcc-4.6 is installed. Yes, I do recall now a lot of talk about 4.6 being subject to frequent change. Slipped my mind there for a bit. :-) I think I will back off to the other version. I mainly was interested in getting up to the minimum version needed to truly support my AMD Phenom 9550 processor (-march=3Damdfam10) the same way Clang does. Thanks for that info. --=20 Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net
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