How to Select Compiler Version when Installing Port

[Daniel J Cain Jr.]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 20:43, Simon Barner wrote:
> Daniel J Cain Jr. wrote:
> > I am trying to get vmailmgr-0.96.9 to build from the ports collection of
> > FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE.  I 'think' it will work if I can have the port use
> > a different compiler version during the build.  I have been unable to
> > figure/find out how (if?) this is possible.  By default it seems to use
> > gcc 3.2.2, and I have the port install of gcc 2.9.5 available I just
> > don't know how to make 'make' use the older version.
> 
> I usually use
> 
> make CC=<your C compiler here> CXX=<your C++ compiler here> build

Thanks!  That seems to have done the trick!


> Simon