Massive PORTREVSION bump for gcc8

[Kevin Oberman]

No, it doesn't. The PORTREVISION in the individual ports were bumped, so
they will get rebuilt with gcc7 if you set the DEFAULT_VERSION, but it will
still show as dated and be rebuilt by any postmaster or poudriere general
update.

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 10:40 AM Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
wrote:

> 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
>