From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 21 8:26:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cybcon.com (mail.cybcon.com [205.147.64.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3AE15412 for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 08:26:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wwoods@cybcon.com) Received: from pdx.cybcon.com (wwoods@pdx.cybcon.com [205.147.64.44]) by mail.cybcon.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA27386; Fri, 21 May 1999 08:26:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 08:26:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Woods To: "M. L. Dodson" Cc: Dennis Ostrovsky , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: egcs.... In-Reply-To: <199905211506.KAA10062@beowulf.utmb.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > -- > M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu > 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message