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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 06:21:39PM +1000, Richard Beyer wrote:
> I understand the gcc version that buildworld uses is the system version=
=20
> (e.g.)
>=20
> >tsmel> gcc -v
> >Using builtin specs.
> >gcc version 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]
>=20
> If I've installed gcc3.3 how can I change the default compiler so that it=
=20
> uses the updated version, or is there some reason I should leave it on=20
> gcc2.95

One rather good reason is that you can't compile the base system with
a version of gcc that isn't the one in the base system :-).  If you
badly want a version of FreeBSD compiled with gcc 3.3, you can update
to FreeBSD 5.x.

Kris

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