GCC help

[Bruce Cran]

RW wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:07:09 -0400
> Victor Farah <victor at netmediaservices.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> I was wondering how I would update gcc to version 4.2?
>> I'm not sure I can just do a portupgrade gcc ??
>>     
>
>
> If you install a later version of gcc it won't automatically get used
> because the port will use the base-system version. 
>   

Can't you set $CC to gcc44 or whatever to make the ports system use a 
different version of gcc?

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Bruce Cran