Upgrading Included GCC

[Jim Stapleton]

On 7/10/06, Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:
> In the last episode (Jul 10), Jacob Jennings said:
> > Hello, I am on FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE and was wondering if there is a way
> > to replace the system's GCC, shipped with 5.5, (GCC 3.4.2) to GCC 4.1
> > without upgrading the whole source tree to another release? Is there
> > a way to do this that will not include much risk of breaking my
> > system? Thanks.
>
> You can install ports/lang/gcc41, which will give you "gcc41" and
> "g++41" executables.
>
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>         Dan Nelson
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If I'm reading the OP's comment right, he may try to do what I did the
first time... I was smart enough to back up the overwritten files
first... which saved me a reinstall.

DO NOT replace teh gcc, g++, etc. base files for the GCC compiler with
the newly compiled files, that will cause a lot of compilation issues
for many core things and does not work properly. I don't know why,
but it doesn't; it seems a lot of things get very tied to a particular
version of the compiler.

-Jim Stapleton