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From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To: Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>
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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