Re: Quick Note about DragonFly Port Overrides

[Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>]

At 3:06 PM +0100 5/24/04, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> David Rhodus wrote:
>
> > Perhaps we should set all the ports to be built with GCC3 then
> > as this is what most of the ports development and testing is
> > done under in FreeBSD at this time. I assume that would make a
> > lot of the ports build much cleaner and fixed several compile
> > errors but I can't really be sure without some testing on that
> > subject.
>  >-DR
>
> 	I second this idea; note, this will break quite a lot of
> 	ports but it is nice to do that so early in the timeline
> 	otherwise we will end up adding all kinds of hacks.

It will break some ports (such as net/cap).  On the other hand, it
would probably be better to default to using gcc3 and then have an
exception-method to handle the ports which can not build with gcc3.

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