Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:27:20 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading Included GCC Message-ID: <80f4f2b20607100827w30e976b7qdd447f098799eca4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060710151828.GC87129@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200607100953.14028.bloodofanubis@gmail.com> <20060710151828.GC87129@dan.emsphone.com>
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On 7/10/06, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 10), Jacob Jennings said: > > Hello, I am on FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE and was wondering if there is a way > > to replace the system's GCC, shipped with 5.5, (GCC 3.4.2) to GCC 4.1 > > without upgrading the whole source tree to another release? Is there > > a way to do this that will not include much risk of breaking my > > system? Thanks. > > You can install ports/lang/gcc41, which will give you "gcc41" and > "g++41" executables. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > If I'm reading the OP's comment right, he may try to do what I did the first time... I was smart enough to back up the overwritten files first... which saved me a reinstall. DO NOT replace teh gcc, g++, etc. base files for the GCC compiler with the newly compiled files, that will cause a lot of compilation issues for many core things and does not work properly. I don't know why, but it doesn't; it seems a lot of things get very tied to a particular version of the compiler. -Jim Stapleton
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