From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Nov 20 18:00:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA07545 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 18:00:33 -0800 Received: from forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU (forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.33.75]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA07540 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 18:00:31 -0800 Received: (from asami@localhost) by forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA17124; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 18:00:23 -0800 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 18:00:23 -0800 Message-Id: <199511210200.SAA17124@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: root@aries.fb3.noaa.gov CC: ports@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199511202206.RAA02005@aries.fb3.noaa.gov> (root@aries.fb3.noaa.gov) Subject: Re: gcc for freebsd? From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk * Sorry to bother you - No problem - * Gcc is conspicuous by it's absence from your "ported" lists. Is it not * portable to freebsd? Actually the opposite, gcc-2.6.3 is already in the main source tree, i.e., FreeBSD's /usr/bin/cc is gcc, so there is no reason to put another one in the ports tree. :) gcc-2.7.x is not imported yet, due to stability concerns, and it will come in as soon as we think it's stable enough. * If it isn't, then how did you get gnu f77 working? * I thought g77 relied on gcc as it's back end! Also, I noticed the text * associated with bcc - "can do 16-bit code". Is freebsd a 16-bit OS? No, it's a full 32-bit OS. I believe the thing about bcc is that you can use it to generate programs that can run on 16-bit OS's (like DOpeS) if you do something clever. Satoshi