Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:14:50 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GCC snapshots and the ports collection Message-ID: <4322F86A.8020409@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4322C65B.7010604@t-hosting.hu> References: <4322C65B.7010604@t-hosting.hu>
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Kövesdán Gábor wrote: > I have two issues with selecting the appropriate version of gcc: > > 1, There is the port net/verlihub, that needs gcc 3.3 that is broken > under amd64. What solution do You recommend? Fix net/verlihub to not depend on a specific version of gcc. > 2, There are gcc snapshots in the ports collection like lang/gcc34, > lang/gcc40, lang/gcc41, but there aren't releaes, just snapshots. Are > these gcc snapshots as reliable as the releases are? No. > Can I use for instance lang/gcc34 for production goals instead of the stock > compiler, or is it just for development/testing usage? You can use a snapshot compiler to build anything you want, although it is recommended that you use the system compiler when building the system itself. (Unfortunately, the GCC folks have been breaking the C++ ABI from release to release pretty regularly, which means that sufficiently different gcc revisions cannot link each other's C++ object code or libraries.) -- -Chuck
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