From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 8 14:29:42 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 8942416A41F for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 14:29:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E6B313C469 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 14:29:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l58ETfLR011449; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:29:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:28:41 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <20070608100715.18C3.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20070608100715.18C3.GERARD@seibercom.net> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706081028.41496.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: 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 14:29:42 -0000 On Friday 08 June 2007 10:07:20 am Gerard wrote: > 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. Chaning the major version number of the default system compiler is not something that is ever likely to happen on a -STABLE branch, which is what 6.x is now. GCC 4.2 has been imported into 7.0-CURRENT, and works well there. IIRC the plan is to have GCC 4.2.1 or similar for 7.0-RELEASE, but check the -current archives to verify. And actually, I think you're mis-reading the announcement. The fact that it builds with gcc 4 is an improvement over the previous patchset which didn't. That does not mean that it requires gcc 4, and I see nothing in the port's Makefile to indicate that it requires any particular version of the compiler. Just "cd /usr/ports/java/jdk15 && make install clean" and you should be good to go (once you get all the source files downloaded manually...) JN