From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 14:16:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA06459 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:16:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06284 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:15:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA10039; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:13:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 14:13:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Zdzislaw A.Kaleta" cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: gcc 2.8 and egcs In-Reply-To: <8397.980515@free.polbox.pl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 May 1998, Zdzislaw A.Kaleta wrote: > I decide to install KDE package on FreeBSD 2.2.6 machine. When trading > to instal koffice I find instructions to install mico. To install mico > the egcs or g++ 2.8.x is needed. On FreeBSD 2.2.6 gcc is 2.7.2.1 and > compilation gice errors as may be suspected. > Hey gurus can I install egcs with no harm? Or there is some other > methods? egcs/FreeBSD has known bugs. There is a gcc 2.8 port (called gcc28 or gcc8) in devel/, but you use this at your own risk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message