From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 10 15:18:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 32BC116A4DA for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:18:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26B2B43D45 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:18:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k6AFITks034109; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:18:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:18:28 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Jacob Jennings Message-ID: <20060710151828.GC87129@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200607100953.14028.bloodofanubis@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200607100953.14028.bloodofanubis@gmail.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading Included GCC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:18:31 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 10), Jacob Jennings said: > Hello, I am on FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE and was wondering if there is a way > to replace the system's GCC, shipped with 5.5, (GCC 3.4.2) to GCC 4.1 > without upgrading the whole source tree to another release? Is there > a way to do this that will not include much risk of breaking my > system? Thanks. You can install ports/lang/gcc41, which will give you "gcc41" and "g++41" executables. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com