Hi,

i like to use Squid proxy on my OpenBSD box. I try to compile the
software with make in /usr/ports/www/squid directory, but the first
thing make recognices is, that it needs gcc 3.2.3. The download starts
but at this time i stopped make because I have some questions:

..) is it a good idea to install gcc 3.2.3 because I keep my system on
the stable branch and have to recompile it some times. I think, if the
OpenBSD team would recommend this version of the compiler, they would
have used it in their release of 3.4. But there they use gcc 2.95.3!

..) and IF I decide to install this version, do ihve to recompile my
whole system (kernel & other stuff). I think so, but does this affect
the security of my system in any way?

I hope someone has an idea what I shold do.

Greetings
Joe

Joe <yojimbo99@uboot.com> wrote:

> .) is it a good idea to install gcc 3.2.3 because I keep my system on
> the stable branch and have to recompile it some times. I think, if the
> OpenBSD team would recommend this version of the compiler, they would
> have used it in their release of 3.4. But there they use gcc 2.95.3!

gcc 3.2.3 will install in /usr/local and will be used only by ports which
cannot be build without it.

your default (system) c compiler still be gcc 2.95.

> .) and IF I decide to install this version, do ihve to recompile my
> whole system (kernel & other stuff). I think so, but does this affect
> the security of my system in any way?

No.

Alek

| .) is it a good idea to install gcc 3.2.3 because I keep my system on
| the stable branch and have to recompile it some times. I think, if the
| OpenBSD team would recommend this version of the compiler, they would
| have used it in their release of 3.4. But there they use gcc 2.95.3!

Less is always better, however since the ports are installed in /usr/local
it doesn't conflict with the gcc coming with OpenBSD.
Consider installing a pre-compiled package.

# PKG="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/`uname -r`/packages/`uname -m`/"
# pkg_add -v $PKG/squid-2.5.STABLE3p4.tgz

| .) and IF I decide to install this version, do ihve to recompile my
| whole system (kernel & other stuff). I think so, but does this affect
| the security of my system in any way?

No

| I hope someone has an idea what I shold do.

Take the pre-compiled package


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