svn commit: r504198 - head/Mk

[Cy Schubert]

On June 14, 2019 9:54:26 AM PDT, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 09:45:54AM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
>> On June 14, 2019 9:10:39 AM PDT, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at FreeBSD.org>
>wrote:
>> >New Revision: 504198
>> >URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/504198
>> >
>> >Log:
>> > Remove GCC 6 as a (documented) option for the default version of
>GCC 6
>> >  in the tree aka GCC_DEFAULT.  It should still work if one simply
>uses
>> > it, but given that GCC 6 has been end-of-lifed last year and
>lang/gcc6
>> >  deprecated, let's not actively promote its usage any longer.
>> ...
>> >@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ FIREBIRD_DEFAULT?=	2.5
>> > FORTRAN_DEFAULT?=	gfortran
>> > # Possible values: 3.0.4
>> > FPC_DEFAULT?=		3.0.4
>> >-# Possible values: 6, 7, 8, 9
>> >+# Possible values: 7, 8, 9
>> > GCC_DEFAULT?=		8
>> > # Possible values: 7, 8, 9, agpl
>> > GHOSTSCRIPT_DEFAULT?=	agpl
>> 
>> Does anything still depend on gcc49, 5 or 6 anymore?
>
>IDK, but I'm very grateful to Gerald for that he does not prune those
>actual ports from the tree.  I'm still happily using GCC 4.8/5 as my
>default USE_GCC ports since they works just fine.
>
>./danfe

A non-default gcc test doesn't duplicate what users are likely to use, unless also testing using poudriere.


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Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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