Updating GCC

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Thu Mar 22 19:06:04 UTC 2007


On Mar 22, 2007, at 11:55 AM, White Hat wrote:
> The installed version is gcc-3.4.6, while the ports
> have version 4.3.0 available. If I install the newer
> version will it replace the older version?

Nope.

> If not and I don't think it will, how do I force the use of the
> newer version of Gcc when making a port?

Add:

CC?=	/usr/local/bin/gcc
CXX?=	/usr/local/bin/g++

...to /etc/make.conf.  You might also find looking at /usr/ports/Mk/ 
bsd.gcc.mk to be informative...

-- 
-Chuck



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