miro - gcc

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Mon Jan 4 11:54:57 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 04:58:53PM -0600, ajtiM wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> My system: FreeBSD 8.0,
> 
> I like to install Miro from ports. FreeBSD has as defaulft gcc 4.2.1 and Miro 
> need a gcc 4.3. If I updated gcc to 4.3 should I expected some problems, 
> please?

in a word - no.
You shouldn't expect any problems.
You will have 2 different compilers installed in different
directories and called different names, e.g. on my system:

HAMOR> gcc44 --version
gcc44 (GCC) 4.4.3 20091222 (prerelease)
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

HAMOR> cc --version
cc (GCC) 4.2.1 20070719  [FreeBSD]
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

HAMOR>

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