Hello Everyone:
I was following the thread on Vidiot's rant on "Who broke GCC compiling
..." and found it very entertaining and informative. As I read the
various posts a question formed in my mind. First, a little background
info.
Some of you might might remember a recent post of mine concerning the
GCC compiler ( Is it possible? Sept. 09, 00). What I was trying to
accomplish was to learn C++ at work. My job is a factory job that
includes a lot of "butt time" (sitting and waiting for the next
operation) and I wanted to use that butt time to study. Since that
didn't work out, I decided to do the exercises on the laptop (old 386
with 20 meg HD) with a DOS editor and compile them on my desktop after I
returned home. My desktop has a new 10.2 gig HD that is less than 10%
used even with RH 6.2 installed. Therein lies the second reason for this
post.
Is it possible to have two versions of the GCC compiler installed on the
same HD, one being the default install in RH for maintaining RH and
compiling SRPM's and the other on a different dir/partition just for
compiling the exercises? The two main reasons for the second install are
a) exercises would not be mixed with system files to avoid system
corruption and wouldn't need kernel related files, b) the second install
could be the latest and greatest version if it wouldn't cause lib
problems.
If I can do this, what/where do I d/l and how would it need to be
installed to avoid corrupting the other version would be the next
question.
Obviously, once I get through this learning C/C++ period, I would not be
asking dumb questions like this one.
Thanks.
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