Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:22:06 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Roderick van Domburg <freebsd-questions@vandomburg.demon.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why gcc 2.95 in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020726172206.GA81702@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200207261830.59401.freebsd-questions@vandomburg.demon.nl> References: <200207261830.59401.freebsd-questions@vandomburg.demon.nl>
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In the last episode (Jul 26), Roderick van Domburg said: > Something I've been wondering about but haven't been able to find the > answer to: Why is by default gcc 2.95 included in FreeBSD as opposed > to the newer gcc 3.0? > > When I visit the GNU GCC website, it seems like 2.95 is ancient... it > dates back to 1999. Don't all of the current Linux distributions ship > with 3.0? Not that I believe that we should blindly follow Linux (at > all *grin*), but I am concerned about cross-platform compatibility. RedHat 7.3 ships with 2.96. Suse looks like it ships with 2.95.3. Debian ships 2.95.4. The version of gcc in FreeBSD 4.* will always be 2.95, because you simply don't do something as drastic as upgrading the compiler on -STABLE. All of your c++ programs would break, for one thing. FreeBSD 5.0 will ship with either gcc3.1 or 3.2, and if you want to use gcc31 or gcc32 on FreeBSD 4.*, install the port. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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