Re: gcc upgrade

[Jake Morrison <jacob.morrison@example.com>]

Uvator,

You might want to keep egcs 1.1.2 around for compiling the kernel.
As I understand it, egcs 1.1.1 is the "official" compiler for
the kernel, though 2.95.2 is supposed to work for most people.

-Jake

"Scott M. Stone" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Viktor Pavlenko wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > just compiled and installed gcc-2.95.2, under /usr/local. It seems to
> > work.
> >
> > Now, I have egcs-1.1.2-30 and egcs-c++-1.1.2-30 rpm packages as well
> > as dynamic C++ libraries (which don't belong to any package) already
> > installed. It's a RH 6.2 system.
> >
> > I wonder if I would break anything now by unistalling the two egcs
> > packages? Is it enough to have /usr/local/bin in the PATH and
> > /usr/local/lib in ld path to switch compilers?
> >
> > I know that the best way to find out is to try, but here I feel that
> > to ask is better :)
> 
> theoretically the RPMs shouldn't own anything in /usr/local - check with
> "rpm -ql egcs | grep local".  As long as they don't, you can safely remove
> them without affecting the compiler that you installed under /usr/local.
> 
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