Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:40:23 GMT From: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: GCC upgrade Message-ID: <200611241640.kAOGeLZk031090@asarian-host.net> In-Reply-To: <20061124161040.GA51857@xor.obsecurity.org>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:kris@obsecurity.org] > Sent: vrijdag 24 november 2006 17:11 > To: Mark > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: GCC upgrade > > > I tested the new gcc, btw (compiled MySQL server with > > it, which takes quite a while). Seems to work fine. > > But I'm not enough of a C expert to know precisely how > > to do a safe upgrade of this kind. > > If you're not an expert then just leave it alone. Replacing > the system compiler might sound like a cool thing to do, but > what will actually happen is that you'll make your FreeBSD > system unbuildable. Guess I hadn't thought about it that way. Good thinking. It's just that 2.95.4 seems so ancient. :) Only reason I wanted to in the first place, is that I've had several ports that wanted a 3.x series gcc (and kept wanting to build one). Thanks, - Mark
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