Subject: Re: cleaning up compiler.mk
To: Klaus Heinz <k.heinz.jul.vier@onlinehome.de>
From: Roland Illig <roland.illig@gmx.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/04/2004 02:49:43
Klaus Heinz wrote:
> bootstrap/README.{AIX,Solaris} says:
> 
>   If you are using gcc
>   --------------------
>   It makes life much simpler if you only use the same gcc consistently
>   for building all packages.
> 
>   See http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html for
>   binary kits and initial packages, including gcc.
> 
>   It is recommended that an external gcc be used only for bootstrapping,
>   then remove gcc and install the pkgsrc binary package.
> 
> If I cannot remove the external gcc I need a way to prefer the gcc from
> pkgsrc.

I am using Solaris, too, and I don't have any configuration except my 
$PATH that forces pkgsrc to use gcc. Sometimes the world is just simple.

Roland