help please GCC3

[darkangelx]

Those of you that have installed GCC3 without a problem could you please post what platform you are on and anything other than ./confgure and make that you had to type, the readme for gcc3 isnt very user friendly and so I ask for help.

[Hoihoi]

just build it the normal way:
sh configure --prefix=installpath
make
make install
and update the PATH

[Mr Guy]

I use Mandrake 8.1 and used the RedHat rpms as I detailed in http://seq.sourceforge.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52

I used rpm -i --force for the rpms listed there. I also manually changed the /usr/bin/[gcc|g++] links, as I explained in that thread.

[Hoihoi]

hmm, expect that you will have to reinstall your linux someday when you force rpms such like the standard compiler

[darkangelx]

Originally posted by Hoihoi
just build it the normal way:
sh configure --prefix=installpath


Could you please elaborate on the "normal way"
i just cd dir
./confgure
make
make install

that isnt working cause im having issues anything else i need to do ?

[Smooth]

just build it the normal way:
sh configure --prefix=installpath
make
make install
and update the PATH


Can you please ellaborate what updating the PATH means?

Thanks

[Smooth]

just build it the normal way:
sh configure --prefix=installpath
make
make install
and update the PATH


Can you please ellaborate what updating the PATH means?

Thanks

[Hoihoi]

the PATH is a system variable where your system is seeking executable binaries/scriptts etc.
it will start seeking from left to right in this variable. so since you didnt install gcc into /usr/local/bin, it will use this path form gcc.
you can check that with 'type gcc'
so to make it use gcc in your new gcc which is not in /usr/locL/bin, you need to make it seek in the new directory first:
ie. export PATH=/usr/local/gcc3/bin:$PATH

this will put the /usr/local/gcc3/bin on the very left side of the PATH variable and there it will seek first and use gcc.
you can check that again with 'type gcc'