Update ports to use gcc42?

[Pierre Queinnec]

Hi,

Thanks for noticing this. I changed www/varnish Portfile, and was 
intending to do so with x11/fluxbox, but I don't have a 10.3 box 
anymore. Can someone on 10.3 confirm that gcc42 does the trick with that 
particular port?

Thanks,
-- Pierre


Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Now that gcc42 is a final release, what should be done with all the 
> ports that depend on gcc41? Should they be updated to require gcc42 
> instead? It's not very many ports:
> 
> devel/lua-numlua
> gnustep/gnustep-base
> gnustep/gnustep-make
> lang/ftidy
> python/py-numpy/Portfile
> textproc/pdftk
> 
> There are also a few still using gcc40:
> 
> lang/ftidy
> math/GiNaC
> math/R
> math/fftw-3-single
> math/fftw-3
> math/nestedsums
> math/octave-forge
> math/octave
> science/libnc-dap
> science/xloops
> www/varnish
> x11/fluxbox
> 
> Assuming gcc42 is capable of building each of the above ports, and that 
> the port authors update these ports to use gcc42, is there a need to 
> keep these old versions of gcc around? It's annoying enough for the user 
> to have to spend a couple hours on an Intel Mac, or many many hours on a 
> slower PowerPC, to compile a single version of gcc. It would be even 
> more annoying if the user wanted to use various different ports, each of 
> which required a different version of gcc.
> 
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