gcc8 deprecated but dependencies exist

[Phansi]

> Hi,
> 
> Sure, I'll check.
> 
> But what do you mean by "I do not use dports" ?

>From what I know dports can be used for some later versions (but I do not know anything about dports). I was trying to indicate that "use dports" would be a tricky answer for me to follow.

And from what Matt says, I guess I can continue using gcc8. Thanks!

> 
> Regards,
> Antonio Huete
> 
> Quoting Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com>:
> 
> > Ok.  Antonio will look into it.  We do override some of the GCC
> > specifications in the FreeBSD ports tree when translating them to DPorts.
> > You can ignore the warning for now (as long as the package works).  It
> > isn't quite as bad as the message says.
> >
> > -Matt
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 8:29 PM Phansi <phansi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Upgraded dragonfly setup recently. Got this message:
> >>
> >> ---------------------------------------------------------
> >> Message from gcc8-8.5.0_1:
> >>
> >> --
> >> ===>   NOTICE:
> >>
> >> This port is deprecated; you may wish to reconsider installing it:
> >>
> >> Unsupported by upstream. Use GCC 10 or newer instead..
> >> ---------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>
> >> Cannot seem to remove gcc8 as blas and lapack depend on it.
> >>
> >> Did remove all the three and then found that (re)installing blas/lapack
> >> still requires gcc8.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions? I do not use dports.
> >>
> >> --
> >> cheers
> >> phansi
> >>
> >>
> 
> 
> 


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cheers
phansi