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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!news.intersurf.net!mozart.jlc.net!news.NH.Destek.Net!news.emi.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!204.245.3.50!news.primenet.com!bkogawa From: bkogawa@primenet.com (Bryan Ogawa) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: GCC 2.7.2 argh!. A minor gripe. Date: 10 Jan 1997 22:39:04 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5b791o$qka@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <01bbfec3$4c991800$530b93cd@think.netlinxstudios.com> X-Posted-By: bkogawa@206.165.5.101 (bkogawa) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33963 "Henry Stapp" <hstapp@netlinxstudios.com> writes: >TWIMC, >I'm generally very happy with FreeBSD (especially the price ;) ) and >recommend it widely to clients and prospective clients. I was surprised >over Christmas when I had to spend four days chasing down and upgrading >software that comes on the CD-ROM distribution. i.e. GCC version 2.6.3 >needed to upgrade to 2.7.2....OK fine. But you also need the new The 2.2-series (right now 2.2-BETA, available over ftp from ftp.cdrom.com) has 2.7.2-1 (recent to 2 steps back, I believe). The reason this wasn't put into 2.1.x, if I remember correctly, was because it invites new, unknown, compiler bugs (versus old, known compiler bugs). For a stable system (which 2.1.x is supposed to be), this is an issue. Note that BSDI ran gcc 1.x for quite a while. Not that I'm disagreeing with you about 2.7.2 being nice (if only so that I don't have to wrangle with other folks' C++ code). It's the primary reason I did an ftp install of 2.2-ALPHA via ppp. it took about 4 hours (most of which I spent watching TV). Other bonuses are better performance (I think it shaves about 10 ms off my ppp ping times, which noticably improves "feel" of network connections) and more emulation. -- bryan k. ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> <bkogawa@netvoyage.net>