Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:15:42 +1100 From: Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de> To: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@tutopia.com> Subject: Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler?) Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901130959360.1234@klein.bigpond.com> In-Reply-To: <496B1471.1080900@unsane.co.uk> References: <61484.71762.qm@web32708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20090111044448.GC5661@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <342292.89033.qm@web32703.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <496A98B3.1010301@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901121216390.1299@klein.bigpond.com> <496B1471.1080900@unsane.co.uk>
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > Peter Ross wrote: > > > > AFAIK you _need_ a C compiler to keep your system secure, to apply > > security patches. > > > > E.g. http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:02.openssl.asc > > > > .. > > make obj && make depend && make && make install > > > > Or more recently, > freebsd-update fetch && freebsd-update install > > its really not needed if you are just following -RELEASE except of > course for ports. I have to apologize for my outdated knowledge. It is around for two years, and well-described in the handbook:-) Thanks for correcting me. Still, there are "real world" cases when the standard install is not good enough. I do not run into them daily but they are not that rare either. The last one, some days ago: A Dell desktop had USB keyboard problems. I fixed it by compiling the USB2 kernel. It did not work with -STABLE and -CURRENT's GENERIC kernel (with the "old" USB stack). Regards Peter
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