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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