On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:29:59AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > This morning the PORTREVISION on at least hundreds of ports was bumped > because gcc8 was declared as the "canonical" version. As a result, I will > have about 300 ports to rebuild which will take many hours. > Why?
Because they need to be rebuilt so that they use the new default of gcc8. > If a port is built and running properly with gcc7, I see no reason to force > the rebuild of all of the ports that are built with gcc7. If you do not want to upgrade, do not upgrade. Now, if you want to keep up-to-date, well, you do have to rebuild everything with the new gcc default. -- Mathieu Arnold
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