Compiling 4-RELEASE on 5-STABLE

Subhro subhro.kar at gmail.com
Thu Oct 14 06:25:21 PDT 2004


On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:06:19 +0200, Erik Trulsson
<ertr1013 at student.uu.se> wrote:

<snip>

> You do realise that you can install gcc 3.4 on a 4.x machine and run
> the binaries compiled with it?
> For C++ the ABI has changed a couple of times betwenn gcc 2.95 and gcc
> 3.4, but for C everything should work fine, as long as you link against
> the right libraries.

What I meant was the system compiler. And I have tried to use the
compiler from the ports as the system compiler. Try it out yourself
and you will know what I mean.

Regards
S.

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