From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 10 16:56:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA28259 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 16:56:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-5.mail.demon.net (relay-5.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.48]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA28253 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 16:56:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk by relay-5.mail.demon.net id ad00579; 10 Jul 96 22:39 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa00394; 10 Jul 96 22:38 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA02522; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 19:23:13 GMT Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 19:23:13 GMT Message-Id: <199607101923.TAA02522@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: grog@lemis.de CC: alexandr@louie.udel.edu, questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199607101012.MAA27347@allegro.lemis.de> (grog@lemis.de) Subject: Re: Help With GCC!!! Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I would've just grabbed 2.7.2, but I remember reading somewhere that > > FreeBSD hasn't jumped to that version yet because of a bunch of bugs and > > other problems. > > The problems with 2.7.2 are exaggerated. Apparently it needs substantial patching to compile the kernel correctly. > I'm using it for everything. Perhaps you have been lucky :-) > I believe it will soon become standard on 2.2. As I understand it, the system compiler in -current will be a patched version of 2.7.3 (when gcc-2.7.3 comes out). At the moment it's a patched version of 2.6.3. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/