From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Nov 18 18:58:10 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D37B7A32505 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 18:58:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from will.senn@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yk0-x22e.google.com (mail-yk0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c07::22e]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 91DE81CBF for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 18:58:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from will.senn@gmail.com) Received: by ykdv3 with SMTP id v3so80236192ykd.0 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:58:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:references:to:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QjdjiElK22jea+DXGSVX3SpnsJILKvJH++T/WcGIGUk=; b=nvspn1mWKYiN8WvVsemKYJtsi2vEuOuaLbQhDktGqvyedc1vsi8dgEpq1UbPv/NZpd zjoJT8+8jmtTULtLz2qLWSCwhU2XJ6dorfUZjFJBTNpbaf6FCJ0y44YYoHEsFezRlNL9 MIHSDdjHUkEA1iSBmGpD5Ue6EeUHAZF1ss1nK3qHgbh46whFcE+aOttiG1J12Cif0jFd mL6LC3Y6c0KvEtj8WJOXIzI76CTirNnqTqGu9oeol2M7Ggalkx7E++I0DhJaosZvl+qw x8dM2BdwXrKLTNFZLFs3uHNDBsUu0Zsp/SARWwEdNvCc7ulgAlLDMxjv5x0xJNqORD0Y sAyA== X-Received: by 10.13.223.151 with SMTP id i145mr3881656ywe.324.1447873089733; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:58:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.4] ([206.251.219.82]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a143sm4591677ywe.54.2015.11.18.10.58.09 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:58:09 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: gnu make and gcc References: <564C91DA.3040909@gmail.com> <20151118150215.GB19167@geeks.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Will Senn Message-ID: <564CCA40.7070609@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:58:08 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151118150215.GB19167@geeks.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 18:58:10 -0000 On 11/18/15 9:02 AM, Doug McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 08:57:30AM -0600, Will Senn wrote: >> Is it ok to install gnu make and gcc on FreeBSD 10.2? and is it safe to >> do so? Or, will it cause confusion with the system provided toolset? I >> am trying to build the simh PDP simulator on freebsd and the makefile is >> a gnu makefile. > Sure, in addition to 'cc' and 'make', you'll have 'gcc' and 'gmake' if > you install those packages. GNU Make is almost always installed by me. > GCC not so much, you may want to try the clang 'cc' first to see if it'll > compile what you need first. > > BTW: simh is already a prebuilt package as well, not sure if with the > options you need. > > Thanks for pointing out that it could be enough to just use gmake. I was wondering how much of the toolchain I could get away with if I went that route. First, I'm going to try the port. Thanks, Will