svn commit: r418678 - in head/devel/elfutils: . files

[Conrad Meyer]

Gerald,

I remember now — elfutils does not compile with GCC other than 4.8.
See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=217000 and
please change it back to USE_GCC=4.8.

Thanks,
Conrad

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 11:13 PM, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2017, Conrad Meyer wrote:
>>> In general we really prefer USE_GCC=yes, i.e., using the default
>>> version of GCC in the Ports Collection over specific versions.
>> I don't recall the reason anymore.  :-)
>>
>> As long as it continues to build, the proposed change is fine with me.
>
> Cool, thanks, I'll make this change.
>
> As a little interesting data point, here is what happens already
> today (before my change), so this should not be a practical change
> for nearly all scenarios:
>
>   % make test-gcc
>   USE_GCC=4.8+
>   Port can use later versions.
>   :
>   Using GCC version 5
>   CC=gcc5 - CXX=g++5 - CPP=cpp5 ...
>   :
>   RUN_DEPENDS=gcc5:lang/gcc
>
> Gerald