Re: Upgrading gcc on FreeBSD 4.11
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:29:12 -0600 Shaun free...@shaunc.com wrote: Is it safe to install one of the newer gcc ports on FreeBSD 4.11? I've had this machine for three years; I don't recall ever upgrading the compiler, although pkg_info seems to think that I did, or at least attempted to. I'm wondering if there are any risks involved in going from gcc 2.95 to, say, 3.4.6. Typically I'm happy to pull the latest stable of just about anything, but the compiler is a different story. ... FWIW: The reason I was wanting to upgrade gcc was to get the /usr/ports/net-mgmt/darkstat package installed. For future reference, installing a gcc port doesn't upgrade gcc, it installs a extra version of the compiler with differently named binaries e.g. gcc44 instead of gcc. Ports that need specific versions of gcc to build will acquire a gcc build-dependency if they cannot be built from the system compiler. Probably, this didn't work correctly for you since the port's infrastructure no longer supports 4.x. Although it might also happen if you have ccache installed, and you put it's symlinks in your path. The only correct way to upgrade the system compiler itself is to build a later version of FreeBSD. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrading gcc on FreeBSD 4.11
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 00:00 -0600, Shaun wrote: Hi all, One of my machines is running FreeBSD 4.11. It's a bit confused about its current incarnation of gcc: [sh...@agaliarept lang]$ pkg_info | grep gcc gcc-3.4.6_3,1 GNU Compiler Collection 3.4 [sh...@agaliarept lang]$ gcc -v Using builtin specs. gcc version 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD] Another of my machines, which runs FreeBSD 6.4, has gcc 3.4.6: [sh...@falwell shaun]$ pkg_info | grep gcc [sh...@falwell shaun]$ gcc -v Using built-in specs. Configured with: FreeBSD/i386 system compiler Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305 Is it safe to install one of the newer gcc ports on FreeBSD 4.11? I've had this machine for three years; I don't recall ever upgrading the compiler, although pkg_info seems to think that I did, or at least attempted to. I'm wondering if there are any risks involved in going from gcc 2.95 to, say, 3.4.6. Typically I'm happy to pull the latest stable of just about anything, but the compiler is a different story. Thanks, Shaun FreeBSD 4.x has not been supported for ports for a long time. Ports are guaranteed to work for the current releases of freebsd and -CURRENT only. Using, or trying, to install anything on 4.x anymore is a gamble. You should upgrade. There was a tag you used to be able to use for 4.x port installs, but I bet that tag hasn't been updated in forever... tag=RELEASE_4_11_0 see: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/schedule.html dated Jan/8/2005 With the above tag, and an updated ports tree, i can recommend installing packages (if the tarballs are still on the internet). Without that tag, i don't recommend it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrading gcc on FreeBSD 4.11
Thanks Tim! I'm aware that 4.x has been EOL'd for a long time. This particular machine is tracking RELENG_4_11. Of course I'd love to upgrade, but I have no physical access. I've researched the potential paths from 4.11 to 5.x to 6.x, and while there are some success stories, there are horror stories as well. I'm not confident enough to attempt it remotely. I can get IPKVM, but this is a personal machine without any sort of HA requirements. It's not worth the hassle or expense to build out a new box and restore the backups until the current hardware fails. FWIW: The reason I was wanting to upgrade gcc was to get the /usr/ports/net-mgmt/darkstat package installed. Trying to install it on 4.11 gave me an error that stdint.h didn't exist. Since my original post, I have found a viable workaround, by symlinking inttypes.h to stdint.h. I appreciate your quick answer, and for anyone else following this thread, I no longer have a need to upgrade gcc. Sage, if you will. Thanks again, Tim! Shaun On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:58:38 -0700 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 00:00 -0600, Shaun wrote: Hi all, One of my machines is running FreeBSD 4.11. It's a bit confused about its current incarnation of gcc: [sh...@agaliarept lang]$ pkg_info | grep gcc gcc-3.4.6_3,1 GNU Compiler Collection 3.4 [sh...@agaliarept lang]$ gcc -v Using builtin specs. gcc version 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD] Another of my machines, which runs FreeBSD 6.4, has gcc 3.4.6: [sh...@falwell shaun]$ pkg_info | grep gcc [sh...@falwell shaun]$ gcc -v Using built-in specs. Configured with: FreeBSD/i386 system compiler Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305 Is it safe to install one of the newer gcc ports on FreeBSD 4.11? I've had this machine for three years; I don't recall ever upgrading the compiler, although pkg_info seems to think that I did, or at least attempted to. I'm wondering if there are any risks involved in going from gcc 2.95 to, say, 3.4.6. Typically I'm happy to pull the latest stable of just about anything, but the compiler is a different story. Thanks, Shaun FreeBSD 4.x has not been supported for ports for a long time. Ports are guaranteed to work for the current releases of freebsd and -CURRENT only. Using, or trying, to install anything on 4.x anymore is a gamble. You should upgrade. There was a tag you used to be able to use for 4.x port installs, but I bet that tag hasn't been updated in forever... tag=RELEASE_4_11_0 see: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/schedule.html dated Jan/8/2005 With the above tag, and an updated ports tree, i can recommend installing packages (if the tarballs are still on the internet). Without that tag, i don't recommend it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
