is it a good idea to overwrite GCC_DEFAULT_VERSION= in Mk/bsd.gcc.mk?

[Gerald Pfeifer]

Hi Anton,

On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> Right now the default GCC is GCC_DEFAULT_VERSION=    4.6
> For some time lang/gcc46 doesn't build for me on ia64.
> However, lang/gcc47 and lang/gcc48 do.
> 
> There are quite a few ports which I cannot update
> because they depend on lang/gcc46 via USE_FORTRAN=    yes.
> 
> So I wonder if there are any side effects or unexpected
> effects if I just change GCC_DEFAULT_VERSION= to e.g. 4.7?

this should work.  In my experience most ports that work with
GCC 4.6 also should with GCC 4.7, and most have USE_GCC=4.6+
anyway, so other users may well have built them with a later
version aleady.

One or the other port may exhibit a compile problem, in which
case that would be an excellent opportunity to file a report
against it and inform its maintainer.

> And anyway, 4.7 will be the default soon, right?

That's what I have been hoping to do, yes.  With the ports
build cluster being unavailable for months now, we simply
could not do the necessary testing though.

Anyone who wants to give this a try, I'd be happy to see that.

Gerald