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Date:      Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:45:38 +0100 (CET)
From:      Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To:        Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Edwin Groothuis <edwin@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/games/groundhog Makefile
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612270740220.32109@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
In-Reply-To: <20061216132604.GA85341@samodelkin.net>
References:  <200612161108.kBGB8OEO038723@repoman.freebsd.org> <20061216132604.GA85341@samodelkin.net>

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On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Max Khon wrote:
> I think that USE_GCC should be used in very rare cases.

Agreed.  And _if_ it has to be used, then hopefully the USE_GCC=x.y+
variant (the one with the + at the end) can be employed.

As for software which requires a specific, rather old version of GCC
to be built, I hope we can get this down to a minimum.

For example, at $DAYJOB where we have a couple of thousand packages
as well, this is not an option for our developers: everything needs
to build with the one and only blessed version of GCC (which is 4.1
at this point); no older versions are provided, let alone supported.

I am not proposing this for FreeBSD, but among others it definitely
helps in terms of supporting non-i386 architectures.

Gerald



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