2014-02-25 10:57 GMT+01:00 LuKreme <krem...@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.
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