On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:53:22PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > On Mon, 31 May 2010 17:01:15 +0100 > Matthew Seaman <m.seaman_at_infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > > > Is it really such a bad thing to have gcc as a build-dependency > > for various ported applications? > > There are already ports that have gcc-4.4.4 as a dependency, and > a few that still require gcc-3.4.6. > > [on my system, that's : > ffmpeg-0.5.1_3,1 > gegl-0.1.2_1 > gimp-app-2.6.8_3,1 > ufraw-0.16_3 > x264-0.0.20100222_1 > xsane-0.996_3 > blas-1.0_4 > lapack-3.2.1_1 Well, blas and lapack require gcc-4.4.4 because these are implemented in Fortran. Fortran was removed from FreeBSD's base several years ago. Note, also that clang/llvm can't compile these libraries so the dependencies won't disappear anytime soon. -- SteveReceived on Tue Jun 01 2010 - 03:17:02 UTC
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