From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 16 17:23:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA02620 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:23:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from intele.net (quervo.intele.net [204.118.149.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA02615 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:23:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (wes@localhost) by intele.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) id SAA27690 for questions@freefall.freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:23:01 -0700 From: Barnacle Wes Message-Id: <199601170123.SAA27690@intele.net> Subject: Re: GNU gcc & g++ To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:23:00 -0700 (MST) In-Reply-To: <199601162236.OAA22450@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Jan 16, 96 02:36:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text 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... Marc G. Fournier answered: > 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 > :( I think you need an up-to-date gas to assemble these. Gas is part of ginutils now, and I couldn't get gnu ld to work with my 2.0 system; now that I've got 2.1 I'll need to rebuild my GNU 2.7 tools so I'll be banging away at this on the weekend. If gas seems to cure the problem of .weak symbols, I'll mail to this list. You'll need to configure gcc --with-gas of course. -- Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffet