From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 1 18:34:04 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA24453 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 18:34:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA24426 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 18:34:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id NAA04825; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 13:03:57 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA21036; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 13:03:57 +1030 Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 13:03:56 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Don Croyle Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preference between egcs and gcc28? In-Reply-To: <863e4peg84.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1 Feb 1999, Don Croyle wrote: > > egcs C++ binaries are not backwards compatible with those spat out by gcc 2.7, > > apparently. This bites you if you try and link against an egcs-built C++ > > library with gcc 2.7.x (e.g. the stock system compiler) - it seems to fail > > with a lot of unresolved symbols. > > This port doesn't create any libraries, so it's sufficient that eg++ > can link against the system libraries. That part seems to be working > so far. Yup, I haven't had any trouble doing this. > I'd gotten the impression that updating the system compiler was > something that was going to happen fairly early in 4.0's lifetime, so > I was really fishing for a hint as to which of the candidates > it would be so I could use it. Failing that, I'll go with egcs since > that seems to be what the author is using. Last I heard from TPTB, egcs was believed to be the way of the future for FreeBSD. Kris ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message