Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 01:03:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Brian O'Connor" <boc@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: development environments Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980603010051.22038V-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199806030342.NAA26888@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au>
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On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Brian O'Connor wrote: For development, FreeBSD is quite strong. The build environment is very tight and standardized. > SGI has a great varsity pack deal that gives us high level commercial > C++/C,fortran,cosmo(java) and ada development packages. You get all that for free from us! :) We have the Sun JDK ported over, c/c++ is stock with the system, and fortran & ada can be had from the ports tree. > Is FreeBSD limited to gcc and other GNU tools?(we have found them very > buggy) Depends on which gcc you use. 2.7.x comes default on FreeBSD 2.2.x systems, and -current will probably move to gcc 2.8 when it gets stable. There is a gcc28 port if you want it tho. The stock berkeley cc/c++ is also provided. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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