Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:29:59 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: "ports@FreeBSD.org" <ports@freebsd.org>, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> Subject: Massive PORTREVSION bump for gcc8 Message-ID: <CAN6yY1tfyOieHGKhD7XRg4ip0yz4mQx0%2BDpoT_ufyjCT0P7dZw@mail.gmail.com>
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This morning the PORTREVISION on at least hundreds of ports was bumped because gcc8 was declared as the "canonical" version. As a result, I will have about 300 ports to rebuild which will take many hours. Why? If a port is built and running properly with gcc7, I see no reason to force the rebuild of all of the ports that are built with gcc7. This will lead to a delay of probably several days in getting updated packages built for LATEST repos and will consume hours of CPU time for everyone using poudriere or building from ports. This even impacts (slightly) climate change with the extra energy used in rebuilding all of those ports across the globe. Perhaps there was a real reason this was required. I have certainly never seen it before for any new compiler version to either gcc or llvm. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
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