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From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: GCC 4.1/gfortran 4.1 on FreeBSD 6/AMD64?
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On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 20:43:13 +0200 (CEST), Gerald Pfeifer
<gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote:

> Steve, et al,
> 
> the latest snapshot of GCC 4.1 fails to build on FreeBSD 6/AMD64, 
> according to reports from the FreeBSD ports build cluster:
> 
>   http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=lang&portname=gcc41
>   http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=lang&portname=gfortran
> 
> Has any of you seen similar problems?
> 
> Would you mind trying to reproduce this by build the lang/gcc41 or
> lang/gfortran ports and let me know the result?
> 
> (If that fails, I'd be most interested to see whether this also
> reproduces with the current subversion status of the GCC 4.1 branch.)
> 
> Thanks!
> Gerald

I've had no particular problems building either gcc 4.1 or 4.2, except
that the gcj compiler bombs with an error message about a missing
"spec" file (I have no idea what such a file is supposed to contain).

A pity, really, I use Java quite a bit here, and gcj would be an
ultra-cool thing to have.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"