about gcc

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Sep 26 14:01:42 PDT 2003


On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:01:04PM -0400, Peng Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I think I can do this. However everytime you want
> to install a software, you need read the Makefile to figure out which
> variables you need set up. Is there something like use.perl for gcc?

No.  The point is you don't want it to override your system compiler
when making world/kernels, because in most cases you cannot replace
the system compiler and still have a buildable FreeBSD system.

Kris
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