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On 25/11/2012 04:06, Tim Daneliuk wrote:

> But I have had essentially no problems doing in-place major rev
> updates with FreeBSD thus far.  The only breakage I am worried about
> now is whether the new compiler change breaks things that used to
> work just fine.  For example, will my make.conf settings be properly
> observed by the new tool chain?


If you want to build with clang wait for 9.1

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=threads/165173

I have been running 9.0 built with clang for most of the year as my
desktop machine without any other issues.

As far as your make.conf goes that will depend on what you have in
there. Most gcc flags will either work or be ignored.