How to stop ports recompiling gcc, llvm, etc.?

[Rastko P]

I have some experience with FreeBSD. I don't mind building ports. You
know sometimes it's necessary (most FreeBSD software is ported, and
needs to be configured)


But I cannot find in the documentation how to prevent a port
re-compiling different versions of GCC or other such monsters, when I
already compiled them.


Any clear-cut solutions?


I know you can install binary packages, that is not relevant to my
question, unless you are being somewhat cynical.


On 13.06.2017 17:05, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 13 Jun 2017, at 15:51, Rastko P <lylecorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think my machine will die from severe dehydration if every other port
>> keeps recompiling compilers.
>>
>> The last make for the "documentation translation" port took 6 hours or
>> more.  What's that in fan oil costs?
>>
>>
>> How to prevent this?
> Install binary packages.
>
> -Dimitry
>