Read the FAQ for egcs, it describes how to install and still have gcc. Don't worry, I had a simular but unlrelated FAQ reading problem with egcs recently too... :)
Here's what I did (Still read the FAQ to make sure the gist is right).... configure egcs like so: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/egcs when you install, this will make a directory egcs in /usr/local. then I went into /usr/local/bin and symlinked the binaries so I could have both gcc and egcc (what I called the symlink for egcs's version of gcc). cd /usr/local/bin ln -s /usr/local/egcs/bin/gcc egcc ln -s /usr/local/egcs/bin/g++ eg++ ln -s /usr/local/egcs/bin/c++ egc++ ln -s /usr/local/egcs/bin/g77 eg77 That's it, it seems to work for me. Anybody out there see any caveats in my technique? Bob Bernstein wrote: > > As is my wont, I experiment with stuff on an old RH4.2 install (except as > noted recently in this venue, my foray in Gnomeification-From-Source, which I > carried out wily-nily on this Debian 1.3 system). > > I recently built from source, on the olde RH, egcs 1.0.2; said build process > is certainly a sight to behold! egcs installed its binary into /usr/local/bin. > So, depending on which path is active (su or user) I get either GNU gcc or > egcs when I bang 'gcc' into the keyboard. > > I would like to put egcs on this Debian 1.3 system (which, with the imminent > release of 2.0 CD's will most likely become my next "experimental" victim) but > it now occurs to me to ask what caveats I should observe upon accomplishing > that. > > Should I rename /usr/bin/gcc (the GNU gcc) and then put a symlink in that dir > to point to /usr/local/bin/gcc? Perhaps there are other changes I ought to > make? > > It occurs to me that perhaps during some 'make install' - when I have become > su - that I might befuddle something via installing it with GNU gcc after I > have built it with egcs' "gcc". > > Does this make any sense at all? > > Ruminations, reminiscences, reproaches, all gladly examined! TIA. > > --------------------n--e--u--t--r--i--n--o----f--e--v--e--r--!------------- > Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.brainiac.com/bernie > at > Esmond, R.I. ftp://rupturedduck.dyn.ml.org (sometimes) > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
