From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 16 18:37:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA25890 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 18:37:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25881 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 18:37:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA18526; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 19:37:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd018502; Mon Mar 16 19:36:59 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA29018; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 19:36:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199803170236.TAA29018@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Compilers: 2.8.1 v 2.7.2.1? To: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu (Steve Kargl) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 02:36:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: ckempf@enigami.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199803162243.OAA00589@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> from "Steve Kargl" at Mar 16, 98 02:43:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > gcc is too crucial to haphazardly upgrade until its stability is well > understood. Since 2.8.1 has only been out for a few weeks, I wouldn't > look for an update to occur any time soon. (I could be wrong, Peter, jdp?) > As a point in case, 2.8.1 appeared with a week or two of 2.8.0. > > Additionally, if I understand the situation, 2.8.1 probably does not > contain the necesssary files to compile a.out format. Bullocks. 8-). The a.out problems are that you can't make a.out using the FSF binutils, not that you can't make a.out with the FreeBSD ld program *not* from binutils. Exceptions will not work with pthreads unless you are running 2.8.x g++ or better. This is as good a reason as any The compiler should be upgraded, but the ld should be the FreeBSD one, and the binutils should go into the other directory (they are needed for ELF, but won't work for a.out, unless someone adds FreeBSD a.out support to the binutils version of the code. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message