From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 1 12:14:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA29104 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 12:14:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat0045.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.188.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA29096 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 12:14:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA15390; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 16:13:26 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 16:13:25 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: David Kelly cc: dcarmich@mcs.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When will FreeBSD get gcc 2.8.1 as default? In-Reply-To: <199811011839.MAA26224@nospam.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, David Kelly wrote: > dcarmich@mcs.com writes: > > I've heard that soon after 3.0-RELEASE, there are plans to upgrade > > FreeBSD to use gcc 2.8.1 as the default. > > Any timeframe on when that will occur? > > > > (I'm currently using Slackware Linux because the C++ compiler (egcs) is better > > , but it would be nice to use gcc-2.8.1 or egcs in FreeBSD by default) > > Usually the latest GCC is in ports long before merging with a public > release. Its up to people like you who actually demand the new features > and closely monitor the functioning of your code to work out the kinks > in order to protect people like me. :-) > > Have you tried /usr/ports/lang/gcc28? Its currently marked as BROKEN, actually...and EGCS is using an 'under development' version of EGCS instead of something stable :( Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message