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Date:      Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:50:54 -0400
From:      Jason Lixfeld <jason+lists.freebsd@lixfeld.ca>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GCC3.4
Message-ID:  <66231CBC-9AAD-11D8-94AF-000A95989E4A@lixfeld.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20040430070958.GA76706@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <C318E8B3-9A6D-11D8-94AF-000A95989E4A@lixfeld.ca> <20040430070958.GA76706@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Apr 30, 2004, at 3:09 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:15:22AM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
>> I've just installed gcc3.4 to, among other things take advantange of
>> the -march=opteron options.  I'm in quite a bit of a conundrum here
>> because I've installed, changed the order in $PATH to look in
>> /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin for gcc, cc etc but when I run a make
>> buildworld it fails saying it doen't recognize the -march=opterion
>> option.  This means that the old system version of gcc is still being
>> referenced somehow, even though I've set the paths:
>
> This is intentional (the system compiler is rebuilt as part of the
> buildworld process, and thereafter used explicitly).
>
> You can't compile world with a compiler that is not the system
> compiler, because it would fail with errors.  If you must have a world
> compiled with gcc 3.x, you'll have to use the FreeBSD 5.x branch,
> which uses gcc 3.x as the system compiler.

This is a 5.2.1 system but it uses 3.3.3, not 3.4.  so I guess I'll 
have to wait then until 3.4 is the system compiler.

> Kris



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