Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 16:13:34 +1000 (AEST) From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> To: Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r418678 - in head/devel/elfutils: . files Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.21.1704081610130.4604@anthias.pfeifer.com> In-Reply-To: <CAG6CVpWvx_5OZ-0AZLSrj5fBeEbD7WpeDqs7rtJ6Ho7bu=kfYw@mail.gmail.com> References: <201607172059.u6HKx0MN085855@repo.freebsd.org> <alpine.LNX.2.21.1704011752360.3249@anthias.pfeifer.com> <CAG6CVpWvx_5OZ-0AZLSrj5fBeEbD7WpeDqs7rtJ6Ho7bu=kfYw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 1 Apr 2017, Conrad Meyer wrote: >> In general we really prefer USE_GCC=yes, i.e., using the default >> version of GCC in the Ports Collection over specific versions. > I don't recall the reason anymore. :-) > > As long as it continues to build, the proposed change is fine with me. Cool, thanks, I'll make this change. As a little interesting data point, here is what happens already today (before my change), so this should not be a practical change for nearly all scenarios: % make test-gcc USE_GCC=4.8+ Port can use later versions. : Using GCC version 5 CC=gcc5 - CXX=g++5 - CPP=cpp5 ... : RUN_DEPENDS=gcc5:lang/gcc Gerald
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