From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 17 02:14:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB6937B401 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 02:14:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MAILSERVER.ofw.fi (ns.ofw.fi [194.111.144.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 015F943F85 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 02:14:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan.naumov@ofw.fi) Received: from [172.16.161.81] by MAILSERVER.ofw.fi (NTMail 7.00.0022/NT1439.00.90501b21) with ESMTP id mybijaaa for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 12:13:34 +0300 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 12:18:20 +0300 From: Dan Naumov To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030417121820.398eef84.dan.naumov@ofw.fi> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Force a GCC version or a FreeBSD version ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:14:44 -0000 Hello I am currently thinking about making a port for Visual Boy Advanced (as the name implies, it's a GBA emulator). The problem is, according to the documentation, it will ONLY work properly with GCC 3.2 or newer. Which route shall I go ? Shall I force a specific version of GCC on the user or shall I make this port BROKEN for all FreeBSD versions prior to 5.0 ? >From my understanding, mixing multiple GCCs (which are binary incompatible) on 1 system is a bad idea. Also doing this GCC trickery will make my life even harder, as I don't have a 4.x box to test this on. Are 5.0-only ports frown upon or are they generally OK ? Sincerely, -- Dan Naumov