Re: Quick Note about DragonFly Port Overrides

[Eirik Nygaard <eirikn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 05:28:37PM +0100, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> 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. :-)

And for just one specific port, make CCVER=gcc2 should override the use of
gcc3.

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Eirik Nygaard
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