Re: defaulting to clang on FreeBSD 10.x

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 06:25:14PM +0100, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 13:07:51 -0400
> Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps it would be better to have an error if the compiler pointed to
> > by PKGSRC_COMPILER is not found.  I'm generally not a fan of trying to
> > patch around misconfiguration, as it often seems to lead to more and
> > more complexity.
> 
> Trying to compile gcc3-c when no compiler is found is doomed to fail.
> Yes, that is a bug and a very old one that I would very much like to
> see fixed. I like the idea of bombing here and prompting the user to
> manually set PKGSRC_COMPILER (and perhaps mention that if applicable
> one might also need to set GCCBASE, CC, CXX and USE_NATIVE_GCC).

Which the choice of gcc3-c is somewhat stupid, it is hard to say if the
installation is going to fail. Consider DEPENDS_TARGET=bin-install.

Joerg