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Date:      Wed, 3 Dec 2014 17:21:05 +0300
From:      Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>
To:        Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be>
Cc:        questions <questions@freebsd.org>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to manually compile on FreeBSD 10.x
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On 3 December 2014 at 17:09, Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 04:57:58PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > Hi Mehmet,
> >
> > You perhaps did not understand my question or I wasn't clear.
> >
> > On previous versions of FreeBSD, issues with compilers have never been an
> > issue. However from FreeBSD 10, a lot has changed and it appears someone
> > needs to manually install a compiler.
>
> GCC has been removed from BASE in FreeBSD 10+ (and replaced by CLANG)
>
> >
> > I went around my problem by:
> >
> > cd /usr/bin
> > ln -s clang++ gcc
>
> that's a very bad idea.. You should install gcc from ports or force
> CXX=clang++ in the Makefile (or in the env).
>
> also I don't understand why you're not using the port (mail/exim) ?
>



Hi Julien,

That very bad idea came from
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23180725/how-to-install-g-on-freebsd :-)
There is also the option to install gcc from the ports, but I went for the
shortcut of symlink because of obvious reasons - not knowing what is the
best.


So I have done away with the symlink.

[root@admin ~/Exim/exim-4.85_RC2]# export CXX=clang++ (I even added it to
/etc/make.conf)
[root@admin ~/Exim/exim-4.85_RC2]# make
/bin/sh scripts/source_checks
`Makefile' is up to date.

gcc buildconfig.c
make[1]: exec(gcc) failed (No such file or directory)
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[1]: stopped in /root/Exim/exim-4.85_RC2/build-FreeBSD-i386
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /root/Exim/exim-4.85_RC2
[root@admin ~/Exim/exim-4.85_RC2]#

The reason I am not using the port is because I want to test the current
version of Exim.

What is the best way to handle this? Step-by-step please.






-- 
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
"I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler."



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