Re: Using gcc41 for pkgsrc?

["Steve Mynott" <steve.mynott@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/21/07, Justin C. Sherrill <justin@shiningsilence.com> wrote:
> On Sat, January 20, 2007 9:53 pm, walt wrote:
> > Confession:  I have an axe to grind :o)
> >
> > I think gcc41 is ready for prime time (except for the kernel)
> > so I hope to prod you gurus into whatever action it takes to
> > get DragonFly ready for building packages with gcc41.
>
> Looking through the pkgsrc-users mailing lists, there's been people
> talking about breakage in places like kde and qemu caused by using gcc4;
> however, it may be patched up by now.  The best way to check this would be
> to do a bulk build and compare the number of successful package builds
> using 4.1.  I don't know if there's time to fit this in.

I assume the correct place to fix this would be within pkgsrc itself,
since its not a DragonFly specific problem.

After a quick look there seems to be a GCC_REQD variable in the
Makefiles for  the GCC version number, although pkgsrc being pkgsrc
there are probably other variables.