Updating system GCC

Gerard gerard at seibercom.net
Fri Jun 8 16:41:42 UTC 2007


On June 08, 2007 at 10:28AM John Nielsen wrote:

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> And actually, I think you're mis-reading the announcement. The fact that it 
> builds with gcc 4 is an improvement over the previous patchset which didn't. 
> That does not mean that it requires gcc 4, and I see nothing in the port's 
> Makefile to indicate that it requires any particular version of the compiler. 
> Just "cd /usr/ports/java/jdk15 && make install clean" and you should be good 
> to go (once you get all the source files downloaded manually...)

Evidently, I failed to comprehend what it was referring to. I had
mistakenly assumed that it required GCC-4 to build. Thanks for the
heads up.


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Gerard


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