gcc-4.4.6.20101012 marked broken?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 08:49:45AM -0600, Troy wrote:
> I was trying to upgrade the gcc port and received the following:
> 
> portupgrade gcc-4.4.6.20101012
> ** Port marked as IGNORE: lang/gcc44:
>         is marked as broken: does not build
> ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
>         - lang/gcc44 (marked as IGNORE)
> 
> Is it safe to remove this port? isn't gcc part of the core operating 
> system?  I'm not sure which port went to install this but I'm hesitant 
> to remove it and break my ability to compile.

I think there is a problem with gcc44, use gcc45 instead.

If you want to check which port installed lang/gcc44, try

pkg_info -xR gcc-4

For example, on my box:

% pkg_info -xR gcc-4
Information for gcc-4.5.3.20101223:

Required by:
CalculiX-2.2
R-2.11.1_1
arpack-96_7
atlas-3.8.3_1,1
blas-1.0_6
lapack-3.3.0_1
lapack95-1.0_5
slatec-4.1
taucs-2.2_6

Try to update ports which depend on gcc44.
I think that recently some (most?) of them
moved to depend on gcc45.

anton

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