From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 16 13:01:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA12911 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 13:01:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [142.77.249.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA12895 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 13:00:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by ki.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA20695; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 16:00:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 16:00:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Jamie Pole cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNU gcc & g++ In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, Jamie Pole wrote: > > Is it possible to upgrade the gcc/g++ included in 2.1 to the newest 2.7.X > versions? If so, how? Are binaries available, or will I need to build > them? Will building the compilers cause problems because the old header > files are present? Thanks... > I've build 2.7.2 without any hitches, and have run kernels built using it, again, without any problems. I've yet to compile libg++-2.7.2, as there are a couple of problems with it, the main one being something to do with .weak symbols, but I've had a few suggestions on how to fix this, just haven't had time to implement :( Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc