How to manually compile on FreeBSD 10.x

[Alnis Morics]

On 12/03/2014 17:09, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> On 3 December 2014 at 17:42, Julien Cigar <jcigar at ulb.ac.be> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 05:21:05PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>>> On 3 December 2014 at 17:09, Julien Cigar <jcigar at ulb.ac.be> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 04:57:58PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>>>>> Hi Mehmet,
>>>>>
>>>>> You perhaps did not understand my question or I wasn't clear.
>>>>>
>>>>> On previous versions of FreeBSD, issues with compilers have never
>> been an
>>>>> issue. However from FreeBSD 10, a lot has changed and it appears
>> someone
>>>>> needs to manually install a compiler.
>>>> GCC has been removed from BASE in FreeBSD 10+ (and replaced by CLANG)
>>>>
>>>>> I went around my problem by:
>>>>>
>>>>> cd /usr/bin
>>>>> ln -s clang++ gcc
>>>> that's a very bad idea.. You should install gcc from ports or force
>>>> CXX=clang++ in the Makefile (or in the env).
>>>>
>>>> also I don't understand why you're not using the port (mail/exim) ?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Julien,
>>>
>>> That very bad idea came from
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23180725/how-to-install-g-on-freebsd
>> :-)
>>> There is also the option to install gcc from the ports, but I went for
>> the
>>> shortcut of symlink because of obvious reasons - not knowing what is the
>>> best.
>>>
>> beware of stackoverflow.com, it's full of mistakes, don't trust it
>>
>> the answer that says "It was renamed in FreeBSD 10. Fixed by creating
>> symlink in /usr/bin:" is just plain wrong.. GCC is not CLANG
>>
>>> So I have done away with the symlink.
>>>
>>> [root at admin ~/Exim/exim-4.85_RC2]# export CXX=clang++ (I even added it
>> to
>>> /etc/make.conf)
>>> [root at admin ~/Exim/exim-4.85_RC2]# make
>>> /bin/sh scripts/source_checks
>>> `Makefile' is up to date.
>>>
>>> gcc buildconfig.c
>>> make[1]: exec(gcc) failed (No such file or directory)
>>> *** Error code 1
>>>
>>> Stop.
>>> make[1]: stopped in /root/Exim/exim-4.85_RC2/build-FreeBSD-i386
>>> *** Error code 1
>>>
>>> Stop.
>>> make: stopped in /root/Exim/exim-4.85_RC2
>>> [root at admin ~/Exim/exim-4.85_RC2]#
>>>
>> you should install GCC from ports, for example lang/gcc (which install
>> gcc 4.8) and do an $> export CC=gcc48
>>
>
> Hi Julien,
>
> Can I stick that to /etc/make.conf or that isn't relevant anymore?
>
> Sometimes I think I will just stick at FreeBSD-9.x because these changes on
> 10.x are proving hard to catch up with if you do not follow -current
> mailing list:(
>
>
Just run:

cd /usr/ports/mail/exim
make install clean

And no hassle with compilers; the ports system itself will download and 
install build dependencies. FreeBSD-specific configurations will be 
cared for, too. And the version is the latest stable. Why not?