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Re: defaulting to clang on FreeBSD 10.x



On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 04:53:52PM +0100, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> 
> But why would you remove the settings that bootstrap has determined to
> be required? This is how it has always worked and is not limited
> to FreeBSD nor PKGSRC_COMPILER. For example all the TOOLS_PLATFORM
> variables that bootstrap may conditionally set in mk.conf if it detects
> that it has to install compatibility packages.
> 
> Kind regards,
> -Tobias

It's not the point of _why_ they would be removed, but the question of their
behaviour of what happens _if_ they are removed. Defaulting to gcc on this
system (FreeBSD 10.x) if clang is not set _explicitly_ by the user is wrong.


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