From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Nov 1 19:21:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21972 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 19:21:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA21966 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 19:21:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA21055; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 22:20:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 22:20:09 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: The Hermit Hacker cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, John Polstra Subject: Re: ECGS ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > I'm generally the last person to complain about a particular port, but why > is there a development version of EGCS 2.x in the ports, but not stable > version? :( > > I'm trying to get KOffice working, which requires mico 2.2.1 to compile > with --disable-mini-stl, but it fails, where it works find under EGCS 1.1 > ... I've sent email to the egcs developers asking them about it, but, > assuming that at one time there was a 1.1 stable port of EGCS, any way of > getting that un-earthed and put into ports beside the development/snapshot > version? Does it compile with gcc-2.8.1? I found that to be a more stable compiler. Obviously, it's one step behind in development that egcs, but if it works, and it's more stable, that sounds very good. I've been wondering if an upgrade of the system gcc might be in the works, now that the elf kernel is a reality (I know, I know, never satified, am I?) ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message