Subject: Re: Using a different compiler
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/23/2006 18:12:45
In article <003701c67e34$6cd3b210$cc22a8c0@STU95>,
Stuart Brooks <stuartb@cat.co.za> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I would like to be able to use a different compiler to build and run
>some of my own applications on Netbsd 1.6.1. The native compiler is gcc
>2.95.3 and I would like to use gcc 3.3.x (because of exception handling
>problems in 2.95). What concerns me is shared library compatibility -
>especially X, QT, GL etc - since I know that the C++ ABI differs between
>those 2 gcc releases.
>
>Does anyone know of any documentation which might cover this, and if
>anyone has tried something like this I would appreciate any hints or
>advice,

You'll probably need to recompile/re-install all the c++ shared libraries.

christos