From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 10 15:14:49 2005 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 D0B2D16A43D for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:14:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from vms048pub.verizon.net (vms048pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59C0343D45 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:14:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([68.161.79.217]) by vms048.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IML00BIAX0MU234@vms048.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:14:47 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:14:50 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <4322C65B.7010604@t-hosting.hu> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= Message-id: <4322F86A.8020409@mac.com> Organization: The Courts of Chaos MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <4322C65B.7010604@t-hosting.hu> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050801 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GCC snapshots and the ports collection 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: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:14:50 -0000 Kövesdán Gábor wrote: > I have two issues with selecting the appropriate version of gcc: > > 1, There is the port net/verlihub, that needs gcc 3.3 that is broken > under amd64. What solution do You recommend? Fix net/verlihub to not depend on a specific version of gcc. > 2, There are gcc snapshots in the ports collection like lang/gcc34, > lang/gcc40, lang/gcc41, but there aren't releaes, just snapshots. Are > these gcc snapshots as reliable as the releases are? No. > Can I use for instance lang/gcc34 for production goals instead of the stock > compiler, or is it just for development/testing usage? You can use a snapshot compiler to build anything you want, although it is recommended that you use the system compiler when building the system itself. (Unfortunately, the GCC folks have been breaking the C++ ABI from release to release pretty regularly, which means that sufficiently different gcc revisions cannot link each other's C++ object code or libraries.) -- -Chuck