On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> > 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?

That is part of the problem. compiler.mk doesn't know about gcc3-whatever
yet.

And gcc3 (3.3) is older than the gcc3-counterparts (3.3.2). These should
be kept in sync (using another Makefile.common?) or gcc3 should become a
meta-package (I can't remember the arguments against that).

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/