On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:05:18PM +0200, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > Hi all, > > So far when building from source on Ubuntu I've always used the > gcc-snapshot sources. This is a Bad Habit (it's specifically > disallowed by Debian for building actual packages), but was an > effective workaround in the period before GCC 4.8 was released. > > Anyway, now that 4.8 _has_ been released, the question is -- where to > get the appropriate sources? Ubuntu only has GCC 4.7.3 and earlier in > its repositories, gcc-snapshot is now frozen (and probably is best to > avoid if possible anyway). > > It seems best to download sources from the Debian repos as they should > be patched to work with Debian/Ubuntu, but I thought I'd ask in case > anyone has any advice. [...]
I thought the usual method is: apt-get source <package> Or is that not working for you for some reason? T -- First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.
