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#! rnews 1428 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.uoregon.edu!la-news1.digilink.net!bob From: "Henry Stapp" <hstapp@netlinxstudios.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: GCC 2.7.2 argh!. A minor gripe. Date: 10 Jan 1997 06:53:18 GMT Organization: NetLinx Lines: 18 Message-ID: <01bbfec3$4c991800$530b93cd@think.netlinxstudios.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: think.netlinxstudios.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33702 TWIMC, I'm generally very happy with FreeBSD (especially the price ;) ) and recommend it widely to clients and prospective clients. I was surprised over Christmas when I had to spend four days chasing down and upgrading software that comes on the CD-ROM distribution. i.e. GCC version 2.6.3 needed to upgrade to 2.7.2....OK fine. But you also need the new libraries... OK. But you can't compile the libraries because the assembler is version _1.4something_ and you need version 2.something. etc... What was supposed to be a quick install ended up taking up my whole vacation (ugh). I realize it's a big job... but with all the GNU stuff that comes installed with the system (and is in fact vital if you want to do programming) couldn't someone make sure everything is fairly up to date before stamping "release" on it? Cheers, Henry Stapp