What compiler is used to build a port

[Olivier Nicole]

Thank you Anto,

> 	I have a strange situation: 2 machines, 9.1 p4, on the first machine,
> 	graphicslibfpx build with the stock compiler:
> 
> 	$ make
> 	===> Fetching all distfiles required by libfpx-1.3.1.1 for building
> 	===>  Extracting for libfpx-1.3.1.1
> 	=> SHA256 Checksum OK for libfpx-1.3.1-1.tar.xz.
> 	===>  Patching for libfpx-1.3.1.1
> 	===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for libfpx-1.3.1.1
> 	/usr/bin/sed -i '' -e '/^#include "fpxlib-config.h"/d'   /usr/ports/graphics/libfpx/work/libfpx-1.3.1-1/basics/filename.cpp      /usr/ports/graphics/libfpx/work/libfpx-1.3.1-1/oless/h/owchar.h         /usr/ports/graphics/libfpx/work/libfpx-1.3.1-1/ole/gen_guid.cpp         /usr/ports/graphics/libfpx/work/libfpx-1.3.1-1/fpxlib.h
> 	===>  Configuring for libfpx-1.3.1.1
> 	===>  Building for libfpx-1.3.1.1
> 	Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/ports/graphics/libfpx/work/libfpx-1.3.1-1
> 	g++  -O2 -pipe -DHAVE_WCHAR_H -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H...
> 
> 	and on the other machine it insists on using gcc >4.4 (which is
> 	actually a mistake, libfpx will *not* compile with gcc 4.4 or gcc
> 	4.6):
> 
> 	$ make 
> 	===> Fetching all distfiles required by libfpx-1.3.1.1 for building
> 	===>  Extracting for libfpx-1.3.1.1
> 	=> SHA256 Checksum OK for libfpx-1.3.1-1.tar.xz.
> 	===>  Patching for libfpx-1.3.1.1
> 	===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for libfpx-1.3.1.1
> 	/usr/bin/sed -i '' -e '/^#include "fpxlib-config.h"/d'   /usr/ports/graphics/libfpx/work/libfpx-1.3.1-1/basics/filename.cpp      /usr/ports/graphics/libfpx/work/libfpx-1.3.1-1/oless/h/owchar.h         /usr/ports/graphics/libfpx/work/libfpx-1.3.1-1/ole/gen_guid.cpp         /usr/ports/graphics/libfpx/work/libfpx-1.3.1-1/fpxlib.h
> 	===>   libfpx-1.3.1.1 depends on executable: gcc46 - not found
> 	===>    Verifying install for gcc46 in /usr/ports/lang/gcc
> 	Making GCC 4.6.3 for x86_64-portbld-freebsd9.1 [c,c++,objc,fortran,java]
> 	===>  Found saved configuration for gcc-4.6.3
> 	===> Fetching all distfiles required by gcc-4.6.3 for building
> 	===>  Extracting for gcc-4.6.3
> 	=> SHA256 Checksum OK for gcc-4.6.3.tar.bz2.
> 	===>   gcc-4.6.3 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.14.4 - found
> 
> 	What could cause aport to request for a different compiler version
> 	when both machines are very similar?
> 
> 	Best regards,
> 
> 	Olivier
> 
> It seems you have different revisions of the ports
> tree on the two boxes. Do
> 
> svn info /usr/ports

I am using portsnap, not svn, but I check the md5 of each files in the
port (there are only 8 files) and they are the same.

And I tried to copy the directory from one machine to the other and
get the same result.

> on both boxes, and see what revisions they have.
> 
> On amd64 with ports at r322188 it builds using
> the system GCC compiler:
> 
> http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/libfpx-amd64-r322188-build.log
> 
> but looking at the port's svn log
> (svn log /usr/ports/graphics/libfpx) shows
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r311828 | miwi | 2013-02-07 12:36:20 +0000 (Thu, 07 Feb 2013) | 2 lines
> 
> - Unbreak build for HEAD

My portsnap is much newer than February.

Thank you,

Olivier

> 
> Maybe your gcc-46 build is on a box with ports tree
> prior to that revision?
> 
> Anton
> 
> P.S. In cases like these I usually email the maintainer
> and copy to ports at .

I will.