From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 27 11:46:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (mta06-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8CBA37B424 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 11:46:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greid@FreeBSD.org) Received: from sobek.openirc.co.uk ([62.252.8.220]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20010527184645.LILO285.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.openirc.co.uk>; Sun, 27 May 2001 19:46:45 +0100 Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 19:46:01 +0100 (BST) From: George Reid X-Sender: greid@sobek.openirc.co.uk To: dave Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: building gcc In-Reply-To: <200105271720.KAA02516@hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 27 May 2001, dave wrote: > I also don't understand how the gcc tarred source doesn't have the glibc > library.. It's quite simple. gcc is a compiler. glibc is a library. FreeBSD uses its own libc. glibc is not required or included. > I just downloaded and built it on some Alpha linux machines at work and it > was compiling stuff from stdio. Stdio is a part of glibc. No, stdio is a series of functions present in C libraries, including glibc and FreeBSD's libc. "A cat has four legs, therefore everything with four legs is a cat". > Has anyone actually upgraded gcc on a FreeBSD or am I just getting > speculative uninformed answers? No, you're just making speculative, uninformed and incorrect statements. -- +-------------------+---------------------+ | George Reid | FreeBSD Committer | | +44 7740 197460 | greid@FreeBSD.org | +-------------------+---------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message