From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 9:50:48 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 CF66B37B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:50:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7AC643E65 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:50:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@vandomburg.demon.nl) Received: from localhost ([80.60.207.158]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GZV84J01.RLH for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:50:43 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Roderick van Domburg Organization: University of Twente To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why gcc 2.95 in FreeBSD? Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:30:59 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200207261830.59401.freebsd-questions@vandomburg.demon.nl> 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 Something I've been wondering about but haven't been able to find the ans= wer=20 to: Why is by default gcc 2.95 included in FreeBSD as opposed to the newe= r=20 gcc 3.0? When I visit the GNU GCC website, it seems like 2.95 is ancient... it dat= es=20 back to 1999. Don't all of the current Linux distributions ship with 3.0?= Not=20 that I believe that we should blindly follow Linux (at all *grin*), but I= am=20 concerned about cross-platform compatibility. Regards, Roderick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message