Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 08:26:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> To: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> Cc: Dennis Ostrovsky <denis.ostrovsky@yale.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: egcs.... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.9905210825240.23544-100000@pdx.cybcon.com> In-Reply-To: <199905211506.KAA10062@beowulf.utmb.edu>
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Well then, this pretty much settels it, unless I want to go curent, egcs
is out. Oh well.
Bill
On Fri, 21 May 1999, M. L. Dodson wrote:
>
> Do not use egcs to compile the kernel or any kernel module for
> any other release but the 4.0-CURRENT tree. It will not work.
> It may appear to work, but will eventually fail. Getting it to
> work correctly in the 4.0-CURRENT tree was a nontrivial exercise.
>
> OTOH, I use egcs from the port to compile most third party
> software. (My path puts /usr/local/bin/{gcc,...} before any of
> the system-furnished compilers).
>
> Bud Dodson
>
> Dennis Ostrovsky writes:
> > On Fri, 21 May 1999, Bill Woods wrote:
> >
> > > I was toying with the idea of using the egcs in the ports (1.1.2 I
> > > believe) on my 3.2 system. Anyone useing egcs for everyday compiliong and
> > > anyone compiled the kernel with it. What are your observations?
> > > problems...and is it just a bad idea or does it work well.
> >
> > I was under the impression that egcs would not compile the kernel properly
> > under 3.x, although it does work (I think) for the 4.0-CURRENT tree.
> >
> > Dennis
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Dennis Ostrovsky ** Department of Chemistry ** Yale University
> >
> > E-mail: den@master.chem.yale.edu WWW: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~do33
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> >
> >
> >
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