From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 10:19:56 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 84FEA37B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:19:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gldis.ca (constans.gldis.ca [216.187.105.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CA4043E3B for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:19:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: from gldis.ca (gldisater@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gldis.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6QHJhL3018307; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 13:19:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: (from gldisater@localhost) by gldis.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6QHJgIa018306; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 13:19:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 13:19:42 -0400 From: Jeremy Faulkner To: Roderick van Domburg Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why gcc 2.95 in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020726131942.A18185@constans.gldis.ca> References: <200207261830.59401.freebsd-questions@vandomburg.demon.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200207261830.59401.freebsd-questions@vandomburg.demon.nl>; from freebsd-questions@vandomburg.demon.nl on Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:30:59PM +0200 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 On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:30:59PM +0200, Roderick van Domburg wrote: > Something I've been wondering about but haven't been able to find the answer > to: Why is by default gcc 2.95 included in FreeBSD as opposed to the newer > gcc 3.0? > > When I visit the GNU GCC website, it seems like 2.95 is ancient... it dates > back to 1999. Don't all of the current Linux distributions ship with 3.0? Not > that I believe that we should blindly follow Linux (at all *grin*), but I am > concerned about cross-platform compatibility. > > Regards, > > Roderick newer != better The -stable branch uses what is tried, tested and true. The -current branch is development, -current has gcc 3.1 as the default compiler. 2.95 has been used since 4.0 was -current, and 2.95 will remain in 4.x forever. A look at the release history will show that 4.0-RELEASE was completed in March 2000. Does that answer your question? -- Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message