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Date:      Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:20:49 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, William Grzybowski <wg@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r321141 - head/devel/glog
Message-ID:  <alpine.LNX.2.00.1307191118260.3414@trevally.site>
In-Reply-To: <20130718135432.GA37227@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201306171644.r5HGiqSr058369@svn.freebsd.org> <20130618033635.GC57172@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.LNX.2.00.1306181849380.1789@trevally.site> <20130718135432.GA37227@FreeBSD.org>

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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



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