svn commit: r564769 - head/irc/undernet-ircu

[Gerald Pfeifer]

Hi Fernando,

On Sun, 14 Feb 2021, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>> Are you sure it even works with the 14 year old version of GCC
>> used by some (older) versions on some (tier 2) platforms?
> Nope, I only test on all production (11.4, 12.2) releases plus 
> current on both i386 and amd64.

>> If GCC is required, I suggest USE_GCC=yes.
>>
> Should be fixed in r565214. I overlooked this. Thanks for the heads up!

thank you!

>> Mk/bsd.gcc.mk tries to describe this a bit, and I'm happy to
>> enhance it if you have any questions or suggestions.
> Since the use case for USE_GCC = any seems narrow (I don't think many 
> ports build with 12 years old compilers on many tier 2 platforms), we 
> could add a warning in the terms of "unless you can guarantee that this 
> works on tier 2 platforms with very old compilers, this is probably not 
> what you want. Try USE_GCC=yes instead"

This was a great idea. I have taken yet one step beyond and made
USE_GCC=any the equivalent of USE_GCC=yes and will soon remove all
instances of USE_GCC=any from the ports tree. Then, also based on
input from Mat, I'm looking into adding a warning.

CHeers,
Gerald