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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx10!jzucconi From: jzucconi@nyx10.cs.du.edu (jean-marc zucconi) Subject: Re: gcc binaries for i386? Message-ID: <1994Jan31.115110.12125@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of Denver for the Denver community. The University has neither control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users. Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account) Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept. References: <2iamhn$994@nic.scruz.net> <MYCROFT.94Jan30223944@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 11:51:10 GMT Lines: 27 mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: > I'd love something newer than 2.4.5 which I didn't have to compile > on my poor slow machine. >GCC 2.5 is not reliable enough for general use at this point. When it >is, I'm sure it will appear in both NetBSD-current and >FreeBSD-current. >I can speak authoritatively when I say that a new version of GCC will >not go into NetBSD until it has succeeded in some pretty hefty >regression testing. Even 2.4.5 had its problems; I remember debugging >it. It would be foolish and irresponsible of us to simply jump on the >latest version. I use gcc 2.5.7 on NetBSD0.9 and I never had any problem. I have compiled XFree and a lot a programs and everything works fine. The only thing which requires the old compiler is the kernel :-)) >-- >- Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu > a straight dressing, mentally unchallenged, vertically unchallenged, ..., > English-American of no color, no religion, and a strong mating preference > for people of gender. Jean-Marc.