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Date:      Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:13:30 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>
Cc:        ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils Makefileports/sysutils/xfce4-cpugraph-plugin Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <20040608161330.GA78073@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040608082301.GB1634@regency.nsu.ru>
References:  <200406072203.i57M3AGF041890@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040608080536.GA49284@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20040608082301.GB1634@regency.nsu.ru>

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On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 03:23:01PM +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:05:36AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> > Adding 'USE_GCC=3.3' to the port Makefile makes it work on 4.x.
> > (The code uses some C99 features (mixing of declarations and code in
> > particular) that are not supported by gcc 2.95.)
> 
> I recommend, in case of simple issues, patch the software instead of
> pulling whole different compiler.  4.x users usually don't feel very
> good about it, since having 2 compilers in system does sound suspicious
> to non-developer folk.

It does??  Many versions of Linux have two versions of the compiler.
On every well sysadmined Sun system I've ever used there have been *at
least* two different compilers.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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