From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 17:30:55 2002 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 AB7C437B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:30:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FC1243E6A for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:30:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from dialup-209.246.212.246.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([209.246.212.246] helo=sparky) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17VLfW-0000h5-00; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:30:50 -0700 From: Jud To: questions@freebsd.org, jim@advancedprediction.com Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:31:13 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Subject: Re: installing gcc from ports question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Opera 6.04 build 1135 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 7/18/2002 8:07:21 PM, "Jim McLoughlin" 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message