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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 17:10:35 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net>
Cc: John-David Childs <jdc@nterprise.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Does port has gcc compiler?
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On Thu, Nov 06, 1997 at 02:16:15PM +0800, Doug Lo wrote:
>> On Thursday November  6, 1997, Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net>
>>  had this to say about "Does port has gcc compiler?":
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been looking for lastest gcc compiler, I'm using gcc 2.7 and I want
>>> to
>>> upgrade it. But I can't find the port for gcc, would anyone tell me
>>> where
>>> I can get lastest gcc version, thanks.
>>>
>>
>> Doug White and others have posted that gcc is tightly integrated with each
>> version of FreeBSD, and thus it's not a good idea to upgrade gcc without
>> upgrading the version of FreeBSD.  I have on occaision been able to
>> upgrade gcc as long as the header files and binaries go in /usr/local/*
>
> John,
>
> Last month I upgraded FreeBSD from 2.2.2-R to 2.2.5-R.
> According your message, seems like FreeBSD doesn't support this port yet.
> So I have to download gcc from prep.ai.mit.edu and compile it by myself,
> right?

Wrong.  What they're trying to explain to you is that (g)cc is part of
the system.  You have it already, it's just called cc, not gcc.

Greg