[moved from toolchain] GCC5: pkg vs. ports

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 02/03/16 09:06, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 2016/02/03 14:18, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> I just did a full 'pkg upgrade' on my FBSD 9.3R box, which installed the
>> newest GCC5. I also updated ports. When I used the pkg-provided GCC5, it
>> doesn't have graphite support enabled, so no auto-parallelization. When
>> I checked the port w/ make showconfig. it shows graphite enabled. I am
>> recompiling it as I write this, but I thought the pkg was/is configured
>> from the port & would have graphite enabled by default, w/ no recompile
>> needed on my part, no ? I have the various other pkg's req'd for
>> graphite support pkg-installed (& just updated this A.M.), so I thought
>> I was ready to go. Not a huge issue, but recompiling the compiler shoots
>> about an hour on my box, would be sweet to avoid that. TIA for any clues
>> & have a good one.
> Unless you've your own poudriere setup, upgrading using binary packages
> will always get you the default options for everything you install --
> what's in any ports tree or any option settings you have locally makes
> no difference.
>
> If you are using poudriere, then remember to set options using
> 'poudriere options -c some/package' -- it doesn't automatically pick up
> options you make from the ports tree.
>
> Well, not unless you've been terribly cunning and done something like
> creating a symbolic link like so:
>
> # cd /usr/local/etc/poudriere
> # mv -f options options.old
> # ln -s /var/db/ports options
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew


Thanks, I am not running poudriere, I am only using ports for gcc5-devel 
to enable graphite support, everything else is pkg-maintained.


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