From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 25 10:35:23 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D29133F6 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:35:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-x22f.google.com (mail-ob0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9A19618F9 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:35:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f175.google.com with SMTP id va2so5340727obc.34 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:35:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=86NuAx0O/s3vxXSy5ORLHzQmlCigaD25P4WjQbUtxzk=; b=UOLSQkwezYlEkDn1dOJArCt5gwnXviiOwogfu8jBrXt7XYNozYds44JAhkI6LlruL9 6Dh4sWXx6k8nu+4/DZNtNVqz7XeeFg0w2XXLoxEu5gc5hNFzmGMD+MAzikEXeaF2vsW9 eIjDGeqOlTS5A/9OAPDo07OORfrWAdqDUnb4yfTDEqpFoOdkzhIGGkG6nG+ymaua2WXi ay34UCrJ86QKkQ4ylyBHjvVPYbqel/Smkba7p9oEuRDc7uNvUF6xZN6i+oM08t2JLRZV FHO6fIpEo6ffR7COBfjSChBhWZpjbegLkXNvNbiNf2bI9ST15I9AWon6dGJV/ywxYGuH 4WOQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.120.34 with SMTP id kz2mr111260oeb.76.1393324522995; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:35:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.108.42 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:35:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4291C7F9-A9D8-4DE6-8232-BDA64EDDAF93@kreme.com> References: <4291C7F9-A9D8-4DE6-8232-BDA64EDDAF93@kreme.com> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:35:22 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Update gcc? From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= To: LuKreme Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: FreeBSD Ports ML X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:35:24 -0000 2014-02-25 10:57 GMT+01:00 LuKreme : > At the risk of starting a kerfuffle, is there any reason to update gcc on > 8.4 or 9.2 from the GPLv2 version 4.2.1 to something more current? > > (I can think of many reasons *not* to, but they all have to do with > writing code which I am not doing). > > I know 10.0 moves to clang (which is familiar to me since OS X changed to > clang a while ago because of the GPLv3 issues), but I'm not ready to move > to 10.0 and I know there are still issues with clang and that some packag= es > still require gcc. > > You answered your own question ;) If you need a newer GCC, you can instal= l one from ports / packages: lang/gcc (currently 4.6) or lang/gcc4[6-9] for a specific version. After that set CC and CXX in /etc/make.conf to the newer GCC. Regards, Ren=E9