[toolchain] ${CC} in share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk

[b. f.]

Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Alexander Best wrote:
> > i might have described things a bit too complicated. basically i want to
> > have CPUTYPE ?= core2 in my make.conf. clang is capable of producing
> > core2 specific code, however core2 always gets downgraded by
> > share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk to nocona in order not to confuse gcc.
> >
> > any chance of fixing this?
>
> I guess one of those extern compilers Robert has in mind should
> be lang/gcc46 from the Ports Collection which is perfectly happy
> to generate core2 code.  I agree we need good infrastructure to
> support such cases.


Related:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=conf/84800
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=conf/112997
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=conf/30399
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/122623

The longevity of some of these is remarkable.

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