Re: FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 09:22:13AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
> On April 25, 2005 09:13 am, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 05:26:48PM +0200, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> > > Do not forget about pointyhat which compiles a tons of ports. 
> > > Switching it to gcc-4.0 would decrease builds time, and it's not a bad
> > > idea IMHO.
> > Any port that uses Fortran will be broken by a blanket switch
> > to gcc-4.0.0.  g77 is no longer a GCC frontend.  Gfortran, which
> > replaces g77, can handle somewhere around 95% of the Fortran 77
> > language and around 90% of the Fortran 95 language.
> 
> > If you want to try gcc-4.0.0, download the tar ball and do
> > configure --prefix=/usr/local --program-suffix=4 languages=c,c++
> > Add CC=gcc4 to C++=g++4 to make.conf and try building a few ports.
> 
> Why not just use the lang/gcc40 port?  :)
> 

Notice I wrote gcc-4.0.0.  The lang/gcc40 port grabs a
snapshot of the 4.0 branch.  You will get a preview
of gcc-4.0.1, which may not be a bad thing.

-- 
Steve