From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 25 7: 3:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-a.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A6DF14A23 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 07:03:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sarig@bezeqint.net) Received: from asmodean ([212.25.120.137]) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.07.30.00.05.p8) with SMTP id <0FLR000WNDT823@mail.bezeqint.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 17:03:09 +0200 (IST) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 17:02:31 +0200 From: Oren Sarig Subject: Re: latest gcc? To: Marc Wandschneider , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <019a01bf3756$1ecf9920$470cb3d4@asmodean> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 Content-type: text/plain; charset="windows-1255" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 References: <13D5F9EDFD72D211BC3100105A1C22330549CB@akira.lanfear.com> X-Priority: 3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > gcc appears to be up to version 2.95 or so. > > Question: Is there a way to update the 2.7.2 that comes with > 3.3 release to this version? or, do I have to download and build the > latest, put it in /usr/local/bin as gcc, and unlink /usr/bin/gcc so that > cc still works with 2.7 ... > > any recommendations? Yep, though it's probably not what you want: don't upgrade. When the release was made, a whole lot newer version of gcc was available, and wasn't included for a reason: gcc 2.7.1.2 (or whatever it is) is the best cross between beinng latest and being good - gcc 2.8 introduced bugs that render it unusable for lots of tasks. 2.9 is no different. If you want a more modern compiler, use egcs, probably from ports. Cheers, Oren Sarig sarig@bezeqint.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message