[Call for Testers] VirtualBox 4.2.4

Mikhail Tsatsenko m.tsatsenko at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 20:44:52 UTC 2012


2012/10/31 Mike Jakubik <mike.jakubik at intertainservices.com>:
> On Tuesday 30 October 2012 4:24:24 PM Mikhail Tsatsenko wrote:
>> 2012/10/31 Mike Jakubik <mike.jakubik at intertainservices.com>:
>> > On Tuesday 30 October 2012 3:56:29 PM Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Mike Jakubik
>> >
>> > My understanding is that Clang will be the default compiler in FreeBSD
>> > 10, how will the port be compiled then?
>>
>> VBox port will be using gcc from ports tree (as a build dependency).
>>
>
> I see, should it not support an up to date version of gcc then? I dont like
> the idea of having a dependancy on an obsolete compiler just to compile one
> port.
I am sorry for confusion. But saying gcc from ports tree I meant some
day when gcc will be removed from base system. Until it happens (and
it will probably not at least in FreeBSD10) VirtualBox will be
compiled with gcc 4.2 from base system.

--
 Mikhail


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