From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Nov 3 10:13:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA15324 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 10:13:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat0045.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.188.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA15316 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 10:13:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA25189; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 14:10:56 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 14:10:55 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: "David O'Brien" cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ECGS ... In-Reply-To: <19981103095412.A12327@nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, David O'Brien wrote: > > but the last I've heard on the list is that v1.1.1 is about to be > > released...is that not more stable then a 'development version'? > > That sounds like a good target for the EGCS port then. Any timeline? Its in pre-release right now, so all things considered, upgrading the port to that from what we are at now might be worth the effort? > > From what I'm gathering, it looks like EGCS went super-strict on the > > conformance side, and MICO might be doing something that the 1.1.x series > > Nothing wrong with adhearing to the ISO spec. The vast margarity of C++ > compilers are so far from the ISO spec it is impossible to know what C++ > really is these days. No disagreement from me...my problem was a misunderstanding about what egcs-2 meant :( Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message