From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 31 23:25:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02C89106566B for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:25:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nec556@retena.com) Received: from resmaa13.ono.com (smtp13.ono.com [62.42.230.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C2058FC1A for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:25:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from GogPortatil.retena.com (212.21.232.228) by resmaa13.ono.com (8.5.113) (authenticated as nec556@retena.com) id 4D6348DC006D9B85; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 01:25:44 +0200 Message-ID: <4D6348DC006D9B85@> (added by postmaster@resmaa13.ono.com) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:25:48 +0200 To: Gary Dunn From: Eduardo In-Reply-To: <970331ea-7d06-435a-a48c-69a41956f412@email.android.com> References: <20110331133753.GB93855@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20110331144924.GC85381@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <970331ea-7d06-435a-a48c-69a41956f412@email.android.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: gcc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:25:49 -0000 At 20:22 31/03/2011, Gary Dunn wrote: >Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >Me too. Am I wrong to think that installing a newer gcc could break >system or port building? No, you must take care that newer gcc will be installed on /usr/local/bin and not in /usr/bin, check this forum entry: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=7035 (it's the first one on my other post) You can use the newer gcc for you apps if you want, i made the change some months ago and i'm a happy clang/llvm user now. HTH