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Subject: Re: ports/143529: [PATCH] math/py-numpy: does not build
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The following reply was made to PR ports/143529; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To: bf1783@gmail.com
Cc: "Li-Lun Wang (Leland Wang)" <llwang@infor.org>, bug-followup@freebsd.org, 
    amdmi3@amdmi3.ru
Subject: Re: ports/143529: [PATCH] math/py-numpy: does not build
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:21:09 +0200 (CEST)

 On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, b. f. wrote:
 >>> This problem is occurring with lang/gcc44 from Ports, when 
 >>> devel/binutils is installed, because then the latest gcc44 snapshots 
 >>> are automatically preferring devel/binutils to the base system 
 >>> binutils.
 >> No-no.  lang/gcc44 does not "automatically" prefer things.  I just
 >> verified that.
 >>
 >> What you describe only happens when an admin _willfully_ selects
 >> the tools from devel/binutils over the system ones.
 > How did you verify it?  I find that lang/gcc44 does prefer
 > devel/binutils: I installed devel/binutils in /usr/local, and then
 > built and installed lang/gcc44 (version 4.4.4.20100209) into the same
 > prefix on 9-CURRENT amd64, without any local modifications to included
 > Makefiles or the build environment.  The resulting binaries show:
 
 One thing I forgot to mention is that partly in reaction to this report
 lang/gcc44 is now unconditionally using devel/binutils since mid February,
 as lang/gcc45 had been doing before.
 
 Also, I am in the process of moving USE_FORTRAN=yes from GCC 4.4 to
 GCC 4.5 and expect that the later will gradually become the "default"
 version of USE_GCC.
 
 Gerald