On Friday 08 June 2007 10:07:20 am Gerard wrote: > I noticed this on the FreeBSD site regarding the latest version of > JAVA: > > January 24, 2007: Greg Lewis has released the fourth patchset > (patchlevel 4, "Sumatran") for the JDK 1.5.0 software. This release > builds with GCC 4 and includes a number of bug fixes. > > FreeBSD-6.2 does not come with GCC 4 or newer. While it is relatively > trivial to install it manually, it then is necessary to make changes > to the system /etc/make.conf file to insure its use. Wouldn't it be > more efficient for the FreeBSD team to integrate GCC 4.3 (I think that > is the latest stable version) into the base system? From what I have > read, this latest version has some major improvements over its > predecessors.
Chaning the major version number of the default system compiler is not something that is ever likely to happen on a -STABLE branch, which is what 6.x is now. GCC 4.2 has been imported into 7.0-CURRENT, and works well there. IIRC the plan is to have GCC 4.2.1 or similar for 7.0-RELEASE, but check the -current archives to verify. And actually, I think you're mis-reading the announcement. The fact that it builds with gcc 4 is an improvement over the previous patchset which didn't. That does not mean that it requires gcc 4, and I see nothing in the port's Makefile to indicate that it requires any particular version of the compiler. Just "cd /usr/ports/java/jdk15 && make install clean" and you should be good to go (once you get all the source files downloaded manually...) JN _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"