From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 8 14:20:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B87316A400 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 14:20:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from server.t-hosting.hu (server.t-hosting.hu [217.20.133.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A17913C489 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 14:20:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA9909F2B78; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 16:20:34 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at t-hosting.hu Received: from server.t-hosting.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.t-hosting.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Jr04q1jYYTzQ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 16:19:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.2.186] (catv-5063f539.catv.broadband.hu [80.99.245.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A899F9F2AB1; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 16:19:44 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4669656E.2090400@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:19:26 +0200 From: Gabor Kovesdan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gerard@seibercom.net References: <20070608100715.18C3.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20070608100715.18C3.GERARD@seibercom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating system GCC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:20:39 -0000 Gerard escribió: > I noticed this on the FreeBSD site regarding the latest version of > JAVA: > > January 24, 2007: Greg Lewis has released the fourth patchset > (patchlevel 4, "Sumatran") for the JDK 1.5.0 software. This release > builds with GCC 4 and includes a number of bug fixes. > > FreeBSD-6.2 does not come with GCC 4 or newer. While it is relatively > trivial to install it manually, it then is necessary to make changes > to the system /etc/make.conf file to insure its use. Wouldn't it be > more efficient for the FreeBSD team to integrate GCC 4.3 (I think that > is the latest stable version) into the base system? From what I have > read, this latest version has some major improvements over its > predecessors. > > > Hello Gerard, the workaround you wrote is not necessary, the Ports Collection infrastructure is aware of the necessay GCC version, via the USE_GCC macro. The java/jdk15 port should just be built without problems. As for the GCC import, the upcoming 7.X will ship with GCC 4.2. Afaik, 4.3 is not a stable version yet. For older releases it is not supposed to merging such big changes from -CURRENT, like a system compiler change. Such needs a lot of testing and anyway, we want to have those branches clean and stable. Regards, -- Gabor Kovesdan FreeBSD Volunteer EMAIL: gabor@FreeBSD.org .:|:. gabor@kovesdan.org WEB: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gabor .:|:. http://kovesdan.org