Thanks for this clarification. Now I understand better. On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Peter N. M. Hansteen <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 05:52:37PM +0800, Tito Mari Francis Esca??o wrote: > > What's the purpose for those packages then? > > Some packages (ports) need compiler (mis)features of other GCC > versions than the one OpenBSD uses as its system compiler. In order > to build those packages, developers needed to make the required tools > available, and so forth. Using the separately packaged compilers to > build the base system was never the intended purpose, you can of > course try if you're feeling adventurous, but you most likely will > find that when it breaks, you get to keep the pieces. > > - P > -- > Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team > http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ > "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" > delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds. > > -- Tito Mari Francis H. EscaC1o Computer Engineer and Free Software Proponent
