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From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
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Subject: Re: USE_GCC=any -> USE_GCC=yes (was: svn commit: r504198 -
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On Fri, 5 Jul 2019, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> I'd have to agree with Mark here: the literal reading of "any" means
> "it's OK to use base GCC" if it's available.  While I understand that
> it's aged and on x86 it's the same as USE_GCC=yes, it's still a bad
> idea to change the meaning of words.

That's not the proposal.  The proposal is s/USE_GCC=any/USE_GCC=yes/.

But I don't have a dog in this race; I'm merely trying to help 
simplify the ports tree and make the lives of those caring about 
fringe architectures simpler.

Gerald