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From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r321141 - head/devel/glog
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On Thu, 18 Jul 2013, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> Interesting; please tell us the summary at the end of the discussions as
> I'm always interested in USE_GCC logic.  Ideally, it should allow to select
> from 1) system GCC (4.2) on Clang-default versions of FreeBSD, and 2) nice,
> stable, non-volatile, LTS, whatever, GCC version that does not have to be
> rebuilt every few weeks, when system compiler (either GCC 4.2 or Clang) is
> not sufficient.

If you want to go for a stable (and reasonable, unlike GCC 4.2 --
regardless of lang/gcc42 or the old system compiler) version of
GCC then lang/gcc is the answer.

USE_GCC=yes requests that and should be preferred over any specific 
version numbers where possible.

Gerald