On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunp...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:03:14AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Jason Hellenthal <jh...@dataix.net> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Gerald, >> > >> > As a request once again similiar to one I have made in the past... Would >> > it be possible yet to slow down the update process for the gcc46 port ? >> > >> > This is turning out to be quite the pain in the U-Know-What with version >> > flapping and rebuilding because a port depends on it. If I am correct it >> > is updated weekly. I caught the tail end of the previous update and the >> > day after it was bumped to the next snapshot version & by the time both of >> > those were finished the port had once again been bumped to _1. >> > >> > Is there anything that could be done to stabalize this ... ? >> > >> > At this point I am left for the manual intervention of using +IGNOREME >> > files or excluding by whatever means neccesary as weekly updates seem >> > completely unneccesary now that alot of ports are shifting to depend on >> > gcc46. >> > >> > Can a gcc46-devel port be branched for those that absolutely need the >> > weekly updates ? >> +1 >> >> gcc46 is used by so many ports that I am continually re-building it >> and on slow machines, this takes a while. How about a gcc46-devel port >> that gets the regular updates and let gcc46 stay stable when there are >> not major fixes? > > We have lang/gcc already. This port is created for perferred gcc releases > (4.6.2 currently). What we're waiting for is a bsd.gcc.mk update to allow > users build ports with lang/gcc instead of lang/gcc46.
Ahh. I see the issue. I have not looked at bsd.gcc.mk, but it does not seem like this should be too difficult. Just a matter of the right person having the time. Would ports specifying gcc46 need to be touched? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
