Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 06:14:01 -0400 From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com> To: "Craig Williamson (ENZ)" <craig.williamson@ericsson.co.nz>, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD with GCC3.1 Message-ID: <NNJ94ZVC7ZYYXHE52XRPA0ICGICD9.3d32a069@sparky> In-Reply-To: <20020714232749.GB28440@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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7/14/2002 7:27:49 PM, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: >On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 07:18:40AM +1000, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: > >> Has anyone had success with getting GCC3.1 working with FreeBSD yet. > >It's in ports... > >> A friend of mine compiled Gentoo Linux with GCC3.1 and he reckoned it seemed >> slower on his system than Linux compiled with GCC2.95. Has anyone had >> success with GCC3.1 and is it worthing trying to install it over 2.95. > >I would think twice before wiping out the system compiler in favour of >gcc-3.1. I'm fairly sure that gcc-3.1 won't compile the world >correctly on 4-STABLE. By all means install 3.1 as a second compiler, >but keep the old version around too. > >Of course, 5-CURRENT has gcc-3.x as the default compiler. If you're a >bleeding-edge fanatic, you could take a look at the developer preview. >Be warned that it might be even closer to the edge than you could cope >with though. Matt Dillon (I think it was in the -current mailing list) mentioned that using gcc-3.1 seemed to cause high CPU usage during compile and no improvement or some degradation in performance, if I remember what he said correctly. I'm using -STABLE, and I've tried to compile world, kernel and ports with gcc-3.1. World and kernel error out. Ports usually compile happily enough. However, assuming that there's no performance gain, I've pretty well stopped fooling with gcc-3.1 for the moment. If I further remember correctly, someone at http://www.coyotegulch.com/ liked the way gcc-3.x worked (though that wasn't about FreeBSD). Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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