FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast

[Freddie Cash]

On April 25, 2005 09:13 am, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 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.

Why not just use the lang/gcc40 port?  :)

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