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From: "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu>
To: "Niall Smart" <njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Problems getting GCC 2.8 working on 3.0-971225-SNAP
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 16:49:37 -0500
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hmm are you sure you installed it into the right DIR? last time i checked
the port of gcc 2.8 gets put into /usr/local/bin not /usr/bin
so most likely you are still using 2.7x, type "gcc -v" to test for this and
see what version it prints.

-Al


-----Original Message-----
From: Niall Smart <njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk>
To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Sunday, February 15, 1998 5:27 AM
Subject: Problems getting GCC 2.8 working on 3.0-971225-SNAP


>Hi all,
>
>I've searched the list for answers to this question but came up with
>nothing so here goes:
>
>I'm trying to get GCC 2.8 working to play with the better support for
>C++ exceptions and templates.  However, exceptions don't work at all,
>has anyone else experienced this?
>
>I looked at the EGCS FAQ, and it said that problems with exceptions could
>be caused by using an old assembler, current uses the one from binutils
>1.92.3 which sounds pretty ancient.  I tried building binutils 2.8.1 with
>no success:
>
>ld: tc-i386.o: malformed input file (not rel or archive)
> *** Error code 1
>
>(That was after ./configure --host=i586-Intel-freebsdelf)
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Niall
>
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