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On Sunday 18 November 2007, Maho NAKATA wrote:
> > How about doing something more simple like:
> >
> > .if ${OSVERSION} >= 700042
> > USE_GCC=	3.4
> > .endif
> >
> > which works great in my situation.

I'd rather see USE_GCC set unconditionally, so that INDEX will
be the same on 6 and 7.

Is there any hope of the software being updated?  My concern is
that once we set this, we'll tend to forget about it later.

mcl