On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:29:59AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > This morning the PORTREVISION on at least hundreds of ports was bumped > because gcc8 was declared as the "canonical" version. As a result, I will > have about 300 ports to rebuild which will take many hours. > Why? > > If a port is built and running properly with gcc7, I see no reason to force > the rebuild of all of the ports that are built with gcc7. This will lead to > a delay of probably several days in getting updated packages built for > LATEST repos and will consume hours of CPU time for everyone using > poudriere or building from ports. This even impacts (slightly) climate > change with the extra energy used in rebuilding all of those ports across > the globe. > > Perhaps there was a real reason this was required. I have certainly never > seen it before for any new compiler version to either gcc or llvm.
Does adding DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=GCC=7 to /etc/make.conf prevent the need to update 300 ports. -- Steve _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
