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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: GCC 2.7.2 for FreeBSD ??
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 13:12:52 -0700
Organization: Me
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Richard Toren wrote:
]
] I second that request. There has been a great deal of talk and work
] about putting kernel threads into FreeBSD, yet the (not so) current
] compiler can't even compile the (soon to be) ASNI C++ Standard
] Template Library.
]
] It also can't compile Douge Schmidts Addaptive Communication
] Environment (ACE).
]
] Hopefully 2.1.5 (dreaming) or 2.2 will include an upgraded compiler.
GCC 2.7.2 can not successfully compile the kernel without patches.
The linker has consistently failed to integrate FreeBSD provided
patches for a.out shared libraries.
Wait for GCC 2.7.3, which resolves the majority of the unacceptable
Intel optimizer bugs, and which has been recently announced.
Alternately, John Polstra has supplie a FreeBSD "Elfkit", which
was announced here in this news group, and on the -current mailing
list, which you can search at www.dejanews.com or www.freebsd.org,
respectively.
Note that -current, if you are running -current, and therefore 2.2,
when it is released, supports running "native" FreeBSD Elf binaries.
It would be helpful if the Elf standard would define some mechanism
for differentiating Elf binaries.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.