Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 18:23:48 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, "Brian O'Connor" <boc@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: development environments Message-ID: <19980603182348.T22406@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980603010051.22038V-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 01:03:12AM -0700 References: <199806030342.NAA26888@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980603010051.22038V-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Wed, 3 June 1998 at 1:03:12 -0700, Doug White wrote: There, you've gone and made me answer when I wanted to think about it for a while... > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Brian O'Connor wrote: > > For development, FreeBSD is quite strong. The build environment is very > tight and standardized. > >> SGI has a great varsity pack deal that gives us high level commercial >> C++/C,fortran,cosmo(java) and ada development packages. > > You get all that for free from us! :) We have the Sun JDK ported over, > c/c++ is stock with the system, and fortran & ada can be had from the > ports tree. I don't think you could call the Fortran and Ada offerings "industrial strength". >> Is FreeBSD limited to gcc and other GNU tools?(we have found them very >> buggy) > > Depends on which gcc you use. 2.7.x comes default on FreeBSD 2.2.x > systems, and -current will probably move to gcc 2.8 when it gets stable. > There is a gcc28 port if you want it tho. I wonderead about this, too. I haven't had any serious problems with gcc. I *have* had problems with what SGI has to offer. Brian, what problems did you have? When? > The stock berkeley cc/c++ is also provided. Where's the stock Berkeley C/C++? There never was a Berkeley C++ that I knew about, and the only C compiler we have is gcc, though there are consideration of moving to TenDRA. I don't know what to suggest. For non-C environments we don't offer anything startling in the base package. On the other hand, neither does SGI. You might consider calling up BSDI and asking what they can recommend. It will all almost certainly run on FreeBSD. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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