Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:55:03 -0500 From: "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com> To: Jason Lixfeld <jason+lists.freebsd@lixfeld.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GCC3.4 Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.2.20040430085350.02465dd0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <66231CBC-9AAD-11D8-94AF-000A95989E4A@lixfeld.ca> References: <C318E8B3-9A6D-11D8-94AF-000A95989E4A@lixfeld.ca> <20040430070958.GA76706@xor.obsecurity.org> <66231CBC-9AAD-11D8-94AF-000A95989E4A@lixfeld.ca>
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At 08:50 AM 04/30/2004, you wrote: >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 One thing I do on 5.2.1 is compile gcc 3.4 but use --program-suffix=3 This way, I have gcc for the kernal, but gcc3 for access to gcc3.4 without clobbering the freebsd version... -JDB
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