On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 07:23:17PM +0400, Alexander Churanov wrote: > 2009/7/22 Kostik Belousov <[email protected]>: > > I believe that the nearest action that is quite reasonable and > > profitable by its own merit is divorcing base compiler and compiler used > > to build ports. Even if this means that we would "only" have different > > versions of gcc. > > > > I know some ports using "USE_GCC" knob of /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gcc.mk . > Is this the same as you suggest?
No. And this was actually not my idea. The proposal is to have portmgr-selected and approved version of gcc, installed from port and used to build ports. The base (g)cc is used only to build base. Such divorce seems to be beneficial both to base compiler, and for ports.
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