From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 28 23:38:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2333A37B424 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 23:38:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA01961; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 23:37:59 -0700 Message-ID: <39AB5A46.9FB75350@urx.com> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 23:37:58 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: andrew@scoop.co.nz Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is gcc version so old? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew McNaughton wrote: > > Using a FreeBSD-3.4 box, I notice that it uses gcc version 2.7.2.3. This > came out in January 1997, which seems rather an old version to use. Can > anyone tell me why this is so? > > I haven't yet found out what version of gcc is standard with the latest > FreeBSD versions. Has it changed? Where can I get this sort of > information on the FreeBSD website? Try the following on your system. kent@ruby$ gcc -v Using builtin specs. gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) I think you will find your default is 2.8.2. Kent > > Andrew McNaughton > > -- > Andrew McNaughton > andrew@squiz.co.nz > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message