How to manually compile on FreeBSD 10.x

[Odhiambo Washington]

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:(


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