rodent%NetBSD.org@localhost writes: > 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. I am not quite following this. Are you saying that if you run bootstrap on FreeBSD 10, you get a $PREFIX/etc/mk.conf that sets PKGSRC_COMPILER to clang, and then everything is ok, but if the user takes that line out, then it tries gcc and fails?
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