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Date:      Fri, 5 Jul 2019 21:18:57 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj@anongoth.pl>,  Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>,  "Jason W. Bacon" <jwb@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org,  svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USE_GCC=any -> USE_GCC=yes (was: svn commit: r504198 - head/Mk)
Message-ID:  <alpine.LSU.2.21.1907052115450.4639@anthias.pfeifer.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190705161041.GA84307@FreeBSD.org>
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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



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