Update gcc?

[René Ladan]

2014-02-25 10:57 GMT+01:00 LuKreme <kremels at kreme.com>:

> At the risk of starting a kerfuffle, is there any reason to update gcc on
> 8.4 or 9.2 from the GPLv2 version 4.2.1 to something more current?
>
> (I can think of many reasons *not* to, but they all have to do with
> writing code which I am not doing).
>
> I know 10.0 moves to clang (which is familiar to me since OS X changed to
> clang a while ago because of the GPLv3 issues), but I'm not ready to move
> to 10.0 and I know there are still issues with clang and that some packages
> still require gcc.
>
> You answered your own question ;) If you need a newer GCC, you can install
one from ports / packages: lang/gcc (currently 4.6) or lang/gcc4[6-9] for a
specific version.
After that set CC and CXX in /etc/make.conf to the newer GCC.

Regards,
René