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I'd love to see gcc3 become a meta-package. It would simplify things=20
considerably. As I understand it, the argument against doing this is that t=
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monolithic package compiles faster than the separate packages.

If the meta-package is acceptable, I have one almost ready to commit. I've=
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been using this as a local solution to the problem.

On Thursday 04 December 2003 10:26 am, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 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/

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John R. Shannon
john@johnrshannon.com
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