Upgrading Included GCC

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Mon Jul 10 15:18:31 UTC 2006


In the last episode (Jul 10), Jacob Jennings said:
> Hello, I am on FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE and was wondering if there is a way
> to replace the system's GCC, shipped with 5.5, (GCC 3.4.2) to GCC 4.1
> without upgrading the whole source tree to another release? Is there
> a way to do this that will not include much risk of breaking my
> system? Thanks.

You can install ports/lang/gcc41, which will give you "gcc41" and
"g++41" executables.

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	Dan Nelson
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