svn commit: r388648 - in head/net: asterisk11 asterisk13

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 9 13:00:52 UTC 2015


On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 01:45:37PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, John Marino wrote:
> > "current GCC" is a bit confusing to me.  Do you mean "Ports GCC"?  
> > Or "appropriate GCC" ?  I think the wording would confuse users too.

+1; "current GCC" is a bit vague; certainly seasoned ports hackers would
know what it means, but for user Joe it might not be immediately clear
when this message pops up in dialog(1) without ^C'ing and reading the
Makefile.

> I guess the full version would be "Use GCC, just not the crappy old
> version in base of older versions of FreeBSD" (except for lang/gambit-c
> and cad/ghdl).
> 
> Perhaps
> 
>   GCC_DESC?=	Use GCC (from ports)

I'd vote for "Use modern GCC (from ports)" or "Build with modern GCC".

./danfe


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