From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 25 8:30:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat198.58.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.198.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB3E914C15 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 08:30:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA88412; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 12:30:36 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 12:30:35 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Oren Sarig Cc: Marc Wandschneider , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: latest gcc? In-Reply-To: <019a01bf3756$1ecf9920$470cb3d4@asmodean> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Oren Sarig wrote: > > 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. gcc 2.95.x == egcs ... they remerged the two projects a couple of months back, and have kept the 'open development' model running...FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT has already been upgraded to 2.95.x as its system compiler... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message