From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 14 09:03:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA16000 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:03:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mother.cdrom.com (mother.cdrom.com [204.216.28.172]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA15995 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:03:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (support@localhost) by mother.cdrom.com (8.8.2/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA07411 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:02:30 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: mother.cdrom.com: support owned process doing -bs Delivery-Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 21:35:51 -0800 X-Received: from pooh.cdrom.com (pooh.cdrom.com [204.216.28.222]) by mother.cdrom.com (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA08345 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:35:50 -0800 (PST) X-Received: from mcl.ucsb.edu (root@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu [128.111.148.100]) by pooh.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA20407 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:36:04 -0800 (PST) X-Received: from d-68.home-ip.as.ucsb.edu (d-68.home-ip.as.ucsb.edu [128.111.143.68]) by mcl.ucsb.edu (8.8.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id VAA01806 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:36:21 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by d-68.home-ip.as.ucsb.edu with Microsoft Mail id <01BC1219.D6D077C0@d-68.home-ip.as.ucsb.edu>; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:33:04 -0800 Message-ID: <01BC1219.D6D077C0@d-68.home-ip.as.ucsb.edu> From: Locutus of Borg To: "'support@cdrom.com'" Subject: FreeBSD 2.1.5 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:32:54 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ReSent-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:02:25 -0800 (PST) ReSent-From: Jun Akiyama ReSent-To: questions@freebsd.org ReSent-Message-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by freefall.freebsd.org id JAA15996 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings, I have FreeBSD 2.1.5, and I can't find the GNU "info" files for anything. Specifically, I'm trying to find the info files for gmake, gcc and g++. I checked the CDROM and they just plain aren't there. Where are they????????? ALSO: How much trouble will I get myself into if I download the latest gcc from the GNU archive. Does the 6M file come with source, so I can build it under FreeBSD? Will the latest gcc (2.7.2.1) contain all the info files? What if I ever need to build a new kernel - will gcc 2.7.2.1 work OK? And finally: There are a ton of libraries in /usr/lib that I have no idea what they are for. Is there any documentation on the libraries that are installed there with FreeBSD, and what functions they contain? I don't even know what applications or packages put in there, so I can't go to a specific program's documentation to find this out... Can you tell I'm a UNIX newbie? Thanks, -John Bushakra (ubushj02@mcl.ucsb.edu)