Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:30:49 +0800 (CIT) From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Subject: Re: lang/gcc46 Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1112140918340.11601@zbenl.fvgr> In-Reply-To: <1323792345.81825.YahooMailClassic@web180207.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1323792345.81825.YahooMailClassic@web180207.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, Thomas Mueller wrote: > I wondered why the ports collection used development snapshots of gcc > rather than stable releases. All you _should_ need to run anything from the FreeBSD Ports Collection is either the system compiler (GCC or clang) or lang/gcc all of which are updated very rarely. Any other version of lang/gcc you need to use is indicative of an issue with some other port (short of the GNUstep ports which we are in the process of addressing now that lang/gcc also provide Objective-C). In case you are interested, I have been spending quite some effort over the last years to minimize the number of such ports and here is the list of remaining ones: cad/salome/Makefile.ext USE_GCC=4.4 cad/sceptre/Makefile USE_FORTRAN=g77 graphics/p5-PGPLOT/Makefile USE_FORTRAN=g77 science/elmer-matc/Makefile USE_FORTRAN=g77 science/elmerpost/Makefile USE_FORTRAN=g77 Without these, lang/gcc44 and lang/gcc34, respectively, could be obsoleted and removed. Gerald
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