[OpenIndiana-discuss] Default compiler?

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 03.04.17 um 03:23 schrieb Will Brokenbourgh:
> Greetings all,
>
> I have several apps and libraries I want to compile and install, 
> however I'm not finding clear direction on which compiler is 
> considered the 'default' for Hipster.  I installed 'build-essential' 
> and it looks like installed a whole bunch of stuff, but I want to 
> install and use the 'recommended' compiler -- for example -- the 
> compiler used by the OI project to compile Mate, Geany, Thunderbird 
> and so-on.
>
The system default is 4.9 at the moment. You can check this with "pkg 
mediator". This should give you a line "gcc    vendor    4.9".
This is the compiler that is sym-linked to /usr/bin. Packages that need 
another version explicitly reference it (e.g. mongodb-3.3).

Regards
Andreas