Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 18:26:56 +0100 (CET) From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> To: John Marino <marino@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r381535 - head/lang/gcc5 Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1503221824440.15042@tuna.site> In-Reply-To: <5509F5BD.3080004@marino.st> References: <201503181039.t2IAd5Bk091541@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.LSU.2.11.1503182248200.3069@tuna.site> <5509F5BD.3080004@marino.st>
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On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, John Marino wrote: >> Are these ports really called gcc50 and gcc47 in Dragon-land? > They aren't ports, they are the values of the CCVER environment > variable that seamlessly switches between the base compilers. Ah, I see! > The gcc version scheme change was pretty pointless (it could have > easily been 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 6.0.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2) but that's a > different discussion. Isn't it essentially what FreeBSD has done a bit ago? I do understand the consequences you are facing, not that one alternative would have been GCC 4.10 hence gcc410 and all sorts of problems with GCC 5.0 at a later point in time (even keeping the versioning scheme). Rock and a hard place, I guess. Gerald
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