Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:56:10 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GCC upgrade Message-ID: <20061124165610.GB97779@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200611241640.kAOGeLZk031090@asarian-host.net> References: <20061124161040.GA51857@xor.obsecurity.org> <200611241640.kAOGeLZk031090@asarian-host.net>
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--b5gNqxB1S1yM7hjW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 04:40:23PM +0000, Mark wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:kris@obsecurity.org]=20 > > Sent: vrijdag 24 november 2006 17:11 > > To: Mark > > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: GCC upgrade > >=20 > > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > Guess I hadn't thought about it that way. Good thinking. > It's just that 2.95.4 seems so ancient. :) >=20 > 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). If you're interested in running gcc 3.x, you can just update to a modern version of FreeBSD (e.g. 6.x). You really should consider doing this on general grounds, since the 4.x branch is scheduled for termination in only a few months (January 2007). Kris --b5gNqxB1S1yM7hjW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFZyQqWry0BWjoQKURAg2pAJ9LXSY8/OWop66I5EKMZm4qN+RNCwCeP+/m KjY4ME+UbQF+NSxwljJPt5Q= =uu/U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --b5gNqxB1S1yM7hjW--
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