[cfarm-users] gcc220 upgrade to OpenBSD 6.5?

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2019, 05:21 Christian Jullien via cfarm-users, <
cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:

> Thank you for this upgrade but what about gcc?
>
> obsd$ uname -a
> OpenBSD obsd.my.domain 6.5 GENERIC.MP#3 amd64
>
> From this page https://www.openbsd.org/65.html I read that available gcc
> should be "GCC 4.9.4 and 8.3.0" but the installed version is quite old
> obsd$ which -a gcc
> /usr/bin/gcc
> obsd$ gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/amd64-unknown-openbsd6.5/4.2.1/specs
> Target: amd64-unknown-openbsd6.5
> Configured with: OpenBSD/amd64 system compiler
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 4.2.1 20070719
>
> On its side, clang is up to date as it should (LLVM/Clang 7.0.1)
>  obsd$ clang -v
> OpenBSD clang version 7.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_701/final) (based on LLVM 7.0.1)
> Target: amd64-unknown-openbsd6.5
> Thread model: posix
> InstalledDir: /usr/bin
>
> Unfortunately, a standard ./configure tries gcc first and find this very
> old gcc version.
>

You can tell it to use a different compiler with CC and CXX variables
though, so it shouldn't be a big deal.

If you want to use OpenBSD you should be prepared to cope with its ancient
GCC. That's standard on OpenBSD.
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