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authorGerald Pfeifer <gerald@FreeBSD.org>2011-09-26 00:54:37 +0000
committerGerald Pfeifer <gerald@FreeBSD.org>2011-09-26 00:54:37 +0000
commit659ec95f4af6c61b630f5714930e5d04d4ea0c4e (patch)
treeb7e06bbec6f7b0e3ca415240f91db43c4994f7ad /lang/gcc/pkg-descr
parentMotoGT is 2D top-viewed game where you drive a MotoGP bike, and you (diff)
Welcome the new lang/gcc port! This shall track our preferred version
of GCC (usually an upstream release). It starts out as GCC 4.6.1 and is thus in conflict with lang/gcc46 and will move towards later minor versions of GCC 4.6 and then on to GCC 4.7. lang/gcc will provide gcc46, g++46, gfortran46 etc. exactly like lang/gcc46 with which it is interchangible. This is also planned to be in sync with our existing USE_FORTRAN knob so that users have the option of using this port, rarely updated, or the corresponding lang/gcc46 which follows weekly upstream snapshots. On the way rename %%GCC_VER%% in pkg-plist to %%GCC_VERSION%% and make the Makefile machinery a bit more generic to minimize differences between lang/gcc ports based on releases and those based on snapshots. PR: 156857
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Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=282394
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@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection, supports a number of languages. This
port installs the C, C++, Fortran and Java front ends as gcc46, g++46,
gfortran46, and gcj46, respectively.
+It can be used interchangibly with the lang/gcc46 port which tracks
+weekly upstream snapshots whereas this port will be updated less
+frequently, mostly in sync with upstream releases, and will move to
+lang/gcc47 and later over time.
+
WWW: http://gcc.gnu.org/
Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@FreeBSD.org>