ports/77707: Fix for ports/77403 introduced circular dependency in ports tree

[Mark Linimon]

The following reply was made to PR ports/77707; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>
To: Bartosz Fabianowski <freebsd at chillt.de>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org,
	<freebsd-ports-bugs at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: ports/77707: Fix for ports/77403 introduced circular dependency
 in ports tree
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:53:59 -0600 (CST)

 On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote:
 
 > USE_GCC= 2.7+ is completely useless as no version of GCC prior to 2.7 is
 > available on FreeBSD anyway - neither in ports nor in the system. The
 > obvious fix is therefore to remove this line from the port's Makefile.
 
 Well AFAIR it's not; I think a recent change to bsd.port.mk requires
 USE_GCC to be set to some useful value, where previously the port
 internally used USE_GCC for its own purposes.  So we've overloaded
 the meaning of the variable.  At least this is what I recall.
 
 But you're correct in that the current situation is broken.  I don't
 know enough about the problem to suggest a correct fix.
 
 You might try rebuilding this port without that line in it to prove
 that it really will build that way.
 
 mcl