Re: Quick Note about DragonFly Port Overrides

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> 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.

	Yes, we could add something like USE_GCC2 or something, and
	people can just define that in their /etc/make.conf is they
	dont care about GCC-3 madness. :-)

		-Hiten
		hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx