On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:05:47 +0300, Kostik Belousov <kostik...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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.
ISTR this is what pkgsrc does. It isn't a very bad idea, and it may give ports/ a bit of freedom about the version of the compiler they can use for special OPTIONS= items like SSE instruction optimizations and so on.
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