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| author | jperkin <jperkin> | 2014-09-06 08:32:55 +0000 |
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| committer | jperkin <jperkin> | 2014-09-06 08:32:55 +0000 |
| commit | d0c61d599cf060c24e6b53d797893b52289cbbd2 (patch) | |
| tree | 5e34ce3dc48ca64d2cab39a0800943c6be2cea90 /mk/compiler | |
| parent | 23a3820fe49ad53d51ee128e7dabe3cd98fbbcf2 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-d0c61d599cf060c24e6b53d797893b52289cbbd2.tar.gz | |
Improve comments around USE_PKGSRC_GCC and GCC_REQD.
Diffstat (limited to 'mk/compiler')
| -rw-r--r-- | mk/compiler/gcc.mk | 15 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/mk/compiler/gcc.mk b/mk/compiler/gcc.mk index 333f6e10850..fd30c612715 100644 --- a/mk/compiler/gcc.mk +++ b/mk/compiler/gcc.mk @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $NetBSD: gcc.mk,v 1.150 2014/09/05 22:11:10 jperkin Exp $ +# $NetBSD: gcc.mk,v 1.151 2014/09/06 08:32:55 jperkin Exp $ # # This is the compiler definition for the GNU Compiler Collection. # @@ -13,10 +13,8 @@ # compiler version a package requires. # # USE_PKGSRC_GCC -# Force using the appropriate version of GCC from pkgsrc based on -# GCC_REQD instead of the native compiler. -# -# This should be disabled only for debugging. +# When set to "yes", use an appropriate version of GCC from +# pkgsrc based on GCC_REQD instead of the native compiler. # # USE_PKGSRC_GCC_RUNTIME # When set to "yes", the runtime gcc libraries (libgcc, libstdc++ @@ -31,10 +29,9 @@ # ONLY_FOR_COMPILER for that purpose. This is a list of version # numbers, of which the maximum version is the definitive one. # -# NOTE: Be conservative when setting GCC_REQD, as lang/gcc3 is -# known not to build on some platforms, e.g. Darwin. If gcc3 is -# required, set GCC_REQD=3.0 so that we do not try to pull in -# lang/gcc3 unnecessarily and have it fail. +# This variable can also be set by the user when USE_PKGSRC_GCC +# is in effect to ensure that a specific compiler is used for +# packages which do not specify a higher version. # # USE_GCC_RUNTIME # Packages which build shared libraries but do not use libtool to |