firefox 13.0,1 needs lang/gcc46 -- to RUN?!

[Heino Tiedemann]

Maciej Suszko <maciej at suszko.eu> wrote:

> Heino Tiedemann <rotkaps_spam_trap at gmx.de> wrote:
>> 
>> What ist the meaning of
>> 
>> ,----
>> | Use GCC 4.6 to fix build on newer FreeBSD versions
>> `----
>> 
>> 
>> What meians "newer FreeBSD versions" here?
>> http://www.freshports.org/www/firefox/
>> 
>> 
>> And what means
>> 
>> ,----
>> | Don't depend on GCC 4.6 if clang is used
>> `----
>> 
>> 
>> How an I use clang?
>> http://www.freshports.org/www/firefox/
>
>
> I just simply built www/firefox with those flags to make:
> CC=clang CXX=clang++ CPP=clang-cpp
>
> If you use portupgrade, this should work:
> portupgrade -m 'CC=clang CXX=clang++ CPP=clang-cpp' firefox\*
>
> ...of course if you have clang in your base system.


Is that enough:

ahab:/home/rotkap> whereis clang
clang: /usr/bin/clang /usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-15/man1/clang.1.gz /usr/src/usr.bin/clang


Do I have any advantage with gcc46 - or the other way arround: Do I have
any disadvantage with the base gcc?

Heino