On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:47:11 -0700 Deepankar Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We tried a few experiments with GCC 3.2 and parts of our source > code and found performance improvements. We want to see if there > are any similar improvements to the FreeBSD OS if we use GCC 3.2. > I understand that it is not a simple task to just swap compilers > to build the kernel. Would be very interested to know what others > have experienced. > > Thanks, > Deepankar > > Kenneth Culver wrote: > > > On Tuesday 15 October 2002 05:12 pm, Deepankar Das wrote: > > > >>All, > >> > >>Has anyone tried building FreeBSD 4.6 with GCC 3.2? I am seeing > >>pre-processor problems during the "make depend" stage. Anything > >>that I need to know to make GCC 3.2 build FreeBSD 4.6? > >> > >>Thanks, > >>Deepankar > >> > > > > I'm just curious, but why are you doing this. This isn't a supported way of > > doing things in FreeBSD 4.6, and I doubt that anyone's going to be able to > > tell you how to do it because of that. > > > > Ken > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Deepankar Das I can't give you the why, but I remember reading in one of the FBSD mailing lists essentially that 4.x=no, 5.x=yes regarding making world and kernel with GCC 3.x. My own experience with 4.x bears that out. OTOH, many applications build just dandy with GCC 3.x. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
