From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 24 16:40:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22FB16A492 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:40:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=ECVH/Sq0=FE=asarian-host.net=admin@asarian-host.net) Received: from mail.asarian-host.net (mail.asarian-host.net [194.109.160.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9DA743D55 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:39:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from SRS0=ECVH/Sq0=FE=asarian-host.net=admin@asarian-host.net) Received: from anonymizer.asarian-host.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.asarian-host.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAOGeNdN031099 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:40:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) DomainKey-Signature: q=dns; a=rsa-sha1; h=from:received-spf:message-id:date:x-authenticated-sender:subject:x-trace:organization:to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:x-mimeole; c=nofws; s=anon; d=asarian-host.net; b=GqW4kt28qacGyJS+jm8/zfmENUo8mOrf04oxhOWbxy7HtiqRYAeqSTUP4ImmBRhf2EPMfnVOVWUbhkrrQP9FtiQYUeUA44MNwdY2BCKnbddNMXxHBfhn1Z0guC/vR0OLN74KZ9vPrHls/MtGrW6JKvXTasvh/RcC7hqVEwvRbis= From: Mark Received-SPF: pass (asarian-host.net: 127.0.0.1 is authenticated by a trusted mechanism) receiver=anonymizer.asarian-host.net; client-ip=127.0.0.1; envelope-from=; helo=clientrunner.asarian-host.net; Message-Id: <200611241640.kAOGeLZk031090@asarian-host.net> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:40:23 GMT X-Authenticated-Sender: admin@asarian-host.net X-Trace: oNmdlACHsf3TehLwIIVHdmx4oj7a/Ey6TVHX4gJnDJxSpqTV32k704dnHV2oy7vA X-Complaints-To: abuse@asarian-host.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers, otherwise we are unable to process your complaint X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on asarian-host.net Organization: Asarian-host To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20061124161040.GA51857@xor.obsecurity.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Subject: RE: GCC upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:40:26 -0000 > -----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