Re: GCC3.4

From: J.D. Bronson (jbronson_at_wixb.com)
Date: 04/30/04

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    Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:55:03 -0500
To: Jason Lixfeld <jason+lists.freebsd@lixfeld.ca>

    At 08:50 AM 04/30/2004, you wrote:
    >On Apr 30, 2004, at 3:09 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
    >
    >>On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:15:22AM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
    >>>I've just installed gcc3.4 to, among other things take advantange of
    >>>the -march=opteron options. I'm in quite a bit of a conundrum here
    >>>because I've installed, changed the order in $PATH to look in
    >>>/usr/local/bin before /usr/bin for gcc, cc etc but when I run a make
    >>>buildworld it fails saying it doen't recognize the -march=opterion
    >>>option. This means that the old system version of gcc is still being
    >>>referenced somehow, even though I've set the paths:
    >>
    >>This is intentional (the system compiler is rebuilt as part of the
    >>buildworld process, and thereafter used explicitly).
    >>
    >>You can't compile world with a compiler that is not the system
    >>compiler, because it would fail with errors. If you must have a world
    >>compiled with gcc 3.x, you'll have to use the FreeBSD 5.x branch,
    >>which uses gcc 3.x as the system compiler.
    >
    >This is a 5.2.1 system but it uses 3.3.3, not 3.4. so I guess I'll have
    >to wait then until 3.4 is the system compiler.
    >
    >>Kris

    One thing I do on 5.2.1 is compile gcc 3.4 but use
    --program-suffix=3

    This way, I have gcc for the kernal, but gcc3 for access to gcc3.4 without
    clobbering the freebsd version...

    -JDB

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