On 2013-01-22, Salil Wadnerkar <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Peter. I found that many autotools packaged programs out there > expect newer gcc environments. > So, when I run > ./configure > make > make install > most of the time, make fails because the system gcc toolchain is old.
On the more common architectures (i386/amd64/sparc64/powerpc/mips64/arm) out of the entire ports tree only a handful of ports need anything other than the primary default compiler. The most common problem is nothing to do with the toolchain, just that /usr/local/lib is not in the default library search path and /usr/local/include is not in the default header search path.
