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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!cygnus.com!usenet From: jtc@rtl.cygnus.com (J.T. Conklin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD still using GCC 2.4.5?! Date: 21 Sep 1995 16:20:10 -0700 Organization: The NetBSD Project Lines: 20 Sender: jtc@rtl.cygnus.com Message-ID: <tjwxb2x9ec.fsf@rtl.cygnus.com> References: <43shaa$o7s@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: rtl.cygnus.com In-reply-to: Jake Hamby's message of 21 Sep 1995 20:18:18 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0 >>>>> "Jake" == Jake Hamby <hamby@aris.jpl.nasa.gov> writes: Jake> I already posted this question to a few NetBSD mailing lists, Jake> but they are so slow I thought I might get a quicker response Jake> from USENET. I just installed NetBSD/Sparc (after a WONDERFUL Jake> experience with FreeBSD on the PC), and was in the midst of Jake> building NetBSD/current, when I realized that NetBSD is still Jake> using GCC 2.4.5... Why is this?? The primary reason that NetBSD has not integrated newer versions of gcc is that our (heavily patched) 2.4.5 works well on all of our current ports. All newer versions have had some serious problem on one architecture or another that disqualified it from integration. GCC 2.7.0 is perhaps the closest release yet to being ready. If 2.7.1 fixes some outstanding code generation bugs, it might be integrated after the NetBSD 1.1 release. --jtc