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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:31:13 -0400
From:      Jud <jud@myrealbox.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org, jim@advancedprediction.com
Subject:   Re: installing gcc from ports question
Message-ID:  <XSP314X98B0LI1YLK4WA01XXUTR9465.3d375dd1@sparky>
In-Reply-To: <NCBBJEJOIHMJAPHOEEFPIEFJEMAA.jim@advancedprediction.com>

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7/18/2002 8:07:21 PM, "Jim McLoughlin" 
<jim@advancedprediction.com> wrote:

>Hi folks
>
>I am upgrading gcc as required by the gnustep tools I want to use, and 
have
>a couple of questions:
>
>1. What is the latest port release?  I assume it's 3.0.4, since the 3.1 in
>the ports appears to have a snapshot of the 3.1 cvs source, even 
though
>gcc.gnu.org lists it as released as of 5/21/2002.  I'm new to how the 
ports
>work for gcc, so I may have the wrong idea here.

Cvsup a week or two ago brought 3.1 (/usr/ports/lang/gcc31) as well as 
the bleeding-edge development build 3.2 (/usr/ports/lang/gcc32).

>
>2. After installing the gcc30 port, I now see that the newer gcc, g++, 
etc
>have been placed in /usr/local/bin, except they still have 30 appended 
to
>them (gcc30, g++30, etc).  Am I supposed to manually rename the 
older
>gcc/g++ in /usr/bin, and remove the 30 extensions, or should I have 
expected
>the make util to do that?

*Don't rename!*  If you want to specify a gcc other than the one 
normally used by the system (2.95 in 4-STABLE and 3.1 in 5-
CURRENT, IIRC), do so in /etc/make.conf.

Jud



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