From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 19 22:27:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10E816A422 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:27:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: from smtp.knology.net (smtp.knology.net [24.214.63.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AA0943D46 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:27:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: (qmail 22114 invoked by uid 0); 19 Mar 2006 22:21:58 -0000 Received: from user-69-73-60-132.knology.net (HELO ?10.0.0.6?) (69.73.60.132) by smtp5.knology.net with SMTP; 19 Mar 2006 22:21:58 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.3) In-Reply-To: <441D5462.4000804@uni-mainz.de> References: <441D5462.4000804@uni-mainz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <4DF6A1F1-BAD6-42E2-92A4-0F05ED9071C4@HiWAAY.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David Kelly Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:27:41 -0600 To: FreeBSD Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.3) Cc: Subject: Re: GCC 4.X 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: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:27:47 -0000 On Mar 19, 2006, at 6:53 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: > Hello. > This maybe a OT questions here, but I would like to know whether there > are plans to make gcc 4.X the standard compiler for FreeBSD and in > case > of a positive answere, when this will be the case. I read about some > problems in recoding parts of the OS, but as I use FreeBSd in a > scientific environment I would welcome a 'out of the box' compiler > solution for our environment and not using a port. I have no doubt FreeBSD will one day move to the 4.x series of gcc, baring problems with GPL 3.0. But one of the biggest reasons I left Linux for FreeBSD was that such things were not done in FreeBSD just because there was a bump in version number. FreeBSD waited for others to work out the kinks in gcc-3.x before converting the -STABLE branch. Same for conversion from aout to ELF binary format. So in a sense what my answer is asking is, "What is it that you expect of gcc-4.x that makes it desirable?" I'll color my statement by observing when installing XCode on my MacBook, I deleted the option for gcc-4.0. Gcc-3.3 was marked "mandatory" and I didn't feel adventurous. At least at the command line, gcc couldn't find cc1 until I installed gcc-4.0. Apparently I'd have to work harder to figure out how to run 3.3 and all I was after was to quickly compile a small application. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.