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Date:      Sat, 20 Jul 2013 06:40:05 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, William Grzybowski <wg@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r321141 - head/devel/glog
Message-ID:  <20130720064005.GA91152@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1307191118260.3414@trevally.site>
References:  <201306171644.r5HGiqSr058369@svn.freebsd.org> <20130618033635.GC57172@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.LNX.2.00.1306181849380.1789@trevally.site> <20130718135432.GA37227@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.LNX.2.00.1307191118260.3414@trevally.site>

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On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:20:49AM -0600, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2013, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > Interesting; please tell us the summary at the end of the discussions as
> > I'm always interested in USE_GCC logic.  Ideally, it should allow to select
> > from 1) system GCC (4.2) on Clang-default versions of FreeBSD, and 2) nice,
> > stable, non-volatile, LTS, whatever, GCC version that does not have to be
> > rebuilt every few weeks, when system compiler (either GCC 4.2 or Clang) is
> > not sufficient.
> 
> If you want to go for a stable (and reasonable, unlike GCC 4.2 --
> regardless of lang/gcc42 or the old system compiler) version of
> GCC then lang/gcc is the answer.
> 
> USE_GCC=yes requests that and should be preferred over any specific
> version numbers where possible.

Right; USE_GCC=(any|yes) works sanely for a while now, and is what I use
when cannot figure out the patch to make software compiler-agnostic fast
enough.

./danfe



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