From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 29 8:25: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kci.kciLink.com (kci.kciLink.com [204.117.82.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC7837B423 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:24:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [204.117.82.2]) by kci.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E3E5E8B4 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:24:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e7TFOti76932; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:24:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14763.54727.726250.511052@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:24:55 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is gcc version so old? In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 11) "Carlsbad Caverns" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "AM" == Andrew McNaughton writes: AM> Using a FreeBSD-3.4 box, I notice that it uses gcc version 2.7.2.3. This AM> came out in January 1997, which seems rather an old version to use. Can AM> anyone tell me why this is so? Install the "gcc295" port and then set CC=gcc295 when compiling. Many current packages need this, so you might as well install it if you want to keep current software and stay with FreeBSD 3.x. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message