FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast

[Steve Kargl]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 05:26:48PM +0200, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
>
> Do not forget about pointyhat which compiles a tons of ports.  Switching
> it to gcc-4.0 would decrease builds time, and it's not a bad idea IMHO.
> 

Any port that uses Fortran will be broken by a blanket switch
to gcc-4.0.0.  g77 is no longer a GCC frontend.  Gfortran, which
replaces g77, can handle somewhere around 95% of the Fortran 77
language and around 90% of the Fortran 95 language.

If you want to try gcc-4.0.0, download the tar ball and do

configure --prefix=/usr/local --program-suffix=4 languages=c,c++

Add CC=gcc4 to C++=g++4 to make.conf and try building a few ports.

-- 
Steve