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From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: is it a good idea to overwrite GCC_DEFAULT_VERSION= in
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	From jnagyjr1978@gmail.com Mon Feb 11 22:45:53 2013

	On 02/11/13 09:21, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
	> Hi Anton,
	>
	> On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
	<snip>
	>> And anyway, 4.7 will be the default soon, right?
	>
	> That's what I have been hoping to do, yes.  With the ports
	> build cluster being unavailable for months now, we simply
	> could not do the necessary testing though.
	>
	> Anyone who wants to give this a try, I'd be happy to see that.

	It was my understanding GCC any version is being phased out (at least as 
	a default) in favor of clang/llvm? Has this changed?

We are talking about lang/gcc4x, not the default OS compiler.

Anton