Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 15:49:53 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Don Croyle <croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preference between egcs and gcc28? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9902011546410.655-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <86ww23djli.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us>
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On 31 Jan 1999, Don Croyle wrote: > I'm working on a port for a C++ program that won't build with the > system version of gcc, but does fine with either egcs' or gcc28's C++ > compiler. > > Is there any strong preference towards using one or the other as a > build dependency? egcs C++ binaries are not backwards compatible with those spat out by gcc 2.7, apparently. This bites you if you try and link against an egcs-built C++ library with gcc 2.7.x (e.g. the stock system compiler) - it seems to fail with a lot of unresolved symbols. Note that I don't actually know much about the 'why' of this, but I read it somewhere (on the egcs website?) and it seems to be bourne out in my experience. Kris ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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