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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: gcc 2.7.1 
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On Sun, 24 Dec 1995, Chuck Robey wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Dec 1995, Josh MacDonald wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Surely as you suggest most people who are in need of the latest version
> > of a gcc or whatever can probably compile it themselves, but it 
> > takes a lot of time and effort to make sure its installed prpoperly
> > and working properly, especially to test the c++ installation because
> > you can't do the 2 or 3 stage build/compare with it.  It would be nice
> > to at least see a set of difss or a package for libg++ and recent versions
> > of gcc, this is my point.  I can contribute what I've done, but who knows
> > if I've done it right.  If there is one unified version, then everyone who
> > finds problems can contribute them and the GNU team will be better notified
> > of FreeBSD diffs.
> 
> Ahh!  Then you're asking for a port of gcc!  Now that is an idea I can 
> completely agree with, and it sounds like a wise thing to do.  It'll give 
> a lot of FreeBSD folks experience with it and it's various 
> bugs/enhancements.   I think it was Kaleb Keithley that I saw reporting 
> his experiences with 2.7.2.  Are you reading this, Kaleb?
>

	Hmmm...I've just compiled both 2.7.1 and 2.7.2 under FreeBSD, and
they both compile straight out of the box...just follow the instructions
step by step in the INSTALL file *Shrug*

	Now, libg++ is another story, but I think that is becuase my
curses.h file is from ncurses :(  Have to tweak that one a bit...

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