Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2017 16:39:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Antoine Brodin <antoine@FreeBSD.org>, fortran@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Avoid hardcoding of the version in lang/gcc in Uses/fortran.mk (PING) Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.21.1704011633340.3249@anthias.pfeifer.com> In-Reply-To: <20150126111810.0b4befa8@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1501252154240.2527@tuna.site> <CAALwa8kjsnfFN-B87vz02eo_ipjb1ct0Rv3w9iAmugfGLTdSsg@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.LSU.2.11.1501260103560.2527@tuna.site> <20150126111810.0b4befa8@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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[ Old e-mail alert ] On Mon, 26 Jan 2015, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > In my opinion one of the lang/gccXY ports has to become the default > instead of lang/gcc. That's how default-versions works. lang/gcc can > stay as a meta-port with a RUN_DEPENDS on the default lang/gccXY, > similar to lang/python. This way "pkg add gcc" still works. And just > like lang/python, lang/gcc could install symlinks like gcc -> gccXY, > g++ -> g++XY,... which would be really convenient now that /usr/bin/gcc > is gone. I have put such symlinks for gcc, g++ and gfortran in place with the lang/gcc port later in 2015. And now that we have gcc5 / gcc5-devel, gcc6 / gcc6-devel, and soon gcc7 / gcc7-devel making the respective non-devel port the default used by USE_GCC is becoming a feasible option (where before we had lang/gcc track releases and lang/gcc46, say, track snapshots). I am currently in the process of finalizing an update of lang/gcc to GCC 5 and after a brief cooling period and some minor tweaks plan on implementing something in that direction. Gerald
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