Re: FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_samsco.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:01:29 -0600
Kövesdán Gábor wrote:
> 
>>
>> Definitely not for 6.0, and I usually avoid .0 releases on critical
>> software, but nonetheless it would interesting setting a tinderbox,
>> launch a buildworld process with gcc40 and see where/if it breaks. I
>> have a spare k6-2 box I could setup for that task.
>>
>>  
>>
> What about installing gcc40 port to an alternative location and testing 
> it with changing the CC, CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS macros so that make uses 
> that version of gcc? I'm compiling the new gcc now, I'm interested in 
> the result...
> 

There is already /usr/ports/lang/gcc40.  It's possible to substitute it
into a 'buildworld' by re-assigning the CC variable in the shell.

Scott
Received on Mon Apr 25 2005 - 14:05:08 UTC

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