Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:38:07 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc 2.8.0 Message-ID: <34EA1F5F.FBF8F285@san.rr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980216224535.11246L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Studded wrote: > > > > gcc requries massive hacking to work. Check in on the -hackers mail > > > archives for current progess; we're still working on it. > > > > This is a question I've been meaning to ask. I always took not being > > able to upgrade gcc in stride because it's not been a priority for me. > > However I was looking over some security stuff and one of the first > > recommendations for securing a high priority machine is to remove the > > compiler. I know that gcc is tightly integrated into FreeBSD, but I'm > > wondering now if that's such a good idea. > > Blowing it away is OK. I did it pretty quickly on a 40MB printserver I > put together last week. > > rm /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc /usr/libexec/cc1plus .... > rm -rf /usr/include Ok, that helps. > This was while sysinstall was still downloading stuff :-) Of course I did > the bonehead thing of removing /usr/lib; luckily mount_nfs is statically > linked! Hehehe.. I know that feeling. > > Which leads me to my question. Are there any plans to dis-integrate gcc > > from the base? It seems like the gcc folks are being more agressive > > about more frequent upgrades, so it would be nice to be able to play > > around with them. > > The main problem upgrading gcc is that FSF doesn't recognize a.out and we > haven't converted to ELF yet. Secondly, the FreeBSD project prefers to > wait it out until gcc falls into a proven stable release. The early > several releases are often buggy and patches quickly follow. Why do you > think we run 2.7.2.1 and not 2.7.0? ;-) Ahhhh.. Ok. I guess I misunderstood the integration problems. Thanks for clearing it up for me. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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