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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:20:49AM -0600, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> 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.

Right; USE_GCC=(any|yes) works sanely for a while now, and is what I use
when cannot figure out the patch to make software compiler-agnostic fast
enough.

./danfe