Subject: Re: mk/compiler.mk
To: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/04/2003 09:42:49
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, John R. Shannon wrote:

> > packages Makefiles should not (and do not) include compiler.mk
> > directly, nor should USE_GCCn be defined. check the comments at the
> > top of compiler.mk.
> >
> > hope this helps.
>
> How do we force pkgsrc gcc 3x to be used (for a language front-end not
> included in the base system)?

Why would you make folks build and install all of gcc3x just for a
language front-end? Isn't that what "gcc3-ada", "gcc3-objc" and so on
are for?

Frederick