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Date:      Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:55:03 -0500
From:      "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com>
To:        Jason Lixfeld <jason+lists.freebsd@lixfeld.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GCC3.4
Message-ID:  <6.1.0.6.2.20040430085350.02465dd0@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <66231CBC-9AAD-11D8-94AF-000A95989E4A@lixfeld.ca>
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At 08:50 AM 04/30/2004, you wrote:
>On Apr 30, 2004, at 3:09 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
>>On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:15:22AM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
>>>I've just installed gcc3.4 to, among other things take advantange of
>>>the -march=opteron options.  I'm in quite a bit of a conundrum here
>>>because I've installed, changed the order in $PATH to look in
>>>/usr/local/bin before /usr/bin for gcc, cc etc but when I run a make
>>>buildworld it fails saying it doen't recognize the -march=opterion
>>>option.  This means that the old system version of gcc is still being
>>>referenced somehow, even though I've set the paths:
>>
>>This is intentional (the system compiler is rebuilt as part of the
>>buildworld process, and thereafter used explicitly).
>>
>>You can't compile world with a compiler that is not the system
>>compiler, because it would fail with errors.  If you must have a world
>>compiled with gcc 3.x, you'll have to use the FreeBSD 5.x branch,
>>which uses gcc 3.x as the system compiler.
>
>This is a 5.2.1 system but it uses 3.3.3, not 3.4.  so I guess I'll have 
>to wait then until 3.4 is the system compiler.
>
>>Kris

One thing I do on 5.2.1 is compile gcc 3.4 but use
--program-suffix=3

This way, I have gcc for the kernal, but gcc3 for access to gcc3.4 without
clobbering the freebsd version...

-JDB 



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