KK> Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 13:29:38 -0800
KK> From: Kris Kennaway
KK> Actually, all the responses I've seen so far have been incorrect, or
KK> haven't mentioned the real reason. FreeBSD 4.10 is using gcc 2.95
KK> because later versions of g++ produce incompatible object code, so we
Ah. Of this I
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 12:01:45PM +, Edward B. Dreger wrote:
> > 2:) Why FreBSD 4.10 is using such an old compiler?
>
> Nobody has upgraded it. What's there is stable and works; nobody has
> volunteered to replace it, test, and assure that all is correct.
> Efforts are going toward RELENG_5
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On Saturday, 1. January 2005 12:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2:) Why FreBSD 4.10 is using such an old compiler?
Because it is a stable branch, and upgrading the compiler would break binary
compatibility all over the place.
> 3:) Has anybody tested FreeBSD 4.10 with gcc-3.4.X?
Compiling FreeB
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[ removed -performance from CC list ]
> linking kernel
> ncr53c500.o: In function `ncv_world_start':
> ncr53c500.o(.text+0x415): undefined reference
Dear FreeBSD people,
I had problems in my ATHLON-XP with 5.3 Release.
While compiling the kernel to use NVIDIA drivers
I opened emacs and everything freezed 2 times!
The third time I didn't touch emacs so the kernel
compilation finished without everything to freeze!
Thus I decided to install Free
