Massive PORTREVSION bump for gcc8

Mathieu Arnold mat at FreeBSD.org
Thu Dec 13 09:36:57 UTC 2018


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?

Because they need to be rebuilt so that they use the new default of gcc8.

> 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.

If you do not want to upgrade, do not upgrade.  Now, if you want to keep
up-to-date, well, you do have to rebuild everything with the new gcc default.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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