From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 10 13:28:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA06227 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:28:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seabass.progroup.com (seabass.progroup.com [206.24.122.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA06218 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from craig@localhost) by seabass.progroup.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA15310 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:29:56 -0700 Message-Id: <199604102029.NAA15310@seabass.progroup.com> Subject: Re: GNU binutils port To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:29:55 -0700 (PDT) From: "Craig Shaver" In-Reply-To: <199604100706.QAA22095@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 10, 96 04:36:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Josh MacDonald stands accused of saying: > > > > Its getting ridiculous, considering how easy it is to import > > the tree. NetBSD has it running, why, may I ask, is the 2.2 > > tree not tracking gcc-2.7? > > Because last time people tried (2.7.2 IIRC), it failed to correctly compile > the kernel, the X servers, and a few other things people threw at it. Is it the compiler or the code? I tried to compile the 2.1-R with 2.7.2 and it did not fail the compile, but the kernel was buggy. A saved make log showed a substantial number of warnings. A make log using the 2.6.3 compiler did not have any of those warnings. I have used the 2.7.2 compiler on Solaris 2.4 since it was available, and I have not had any problems I could attribute to the compiler. All of the ports I have compiled on 2.1-R have worked flawlessly (so far :*)! > > 2.6.3 may be "old hat", but it works. I remember being laughed at for > sticking with 1.39 while the world was wailing and gnashing it's teeth > over 2.2 and the grief there. If it's 2.8 before the major problems are > fixed, I can't see us losing too much sleep 8) I moved to 2.7.2 on solarais because people said 2.6.3 was buggy! What's up! btw, I have not tried c++ (g++) on freebsd, does it work? Are there any problems with linking? Dynamic libraries? Compiling STL? Should I consider FreeBSD a viable platform for applications development using c++? Motif? Would I be better off concentrating on Linux, and waiting for FreeBSD to catch up? Thanks, -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088