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Re: Egcs on Linux/Alpha (RH4.2)
- To: "D. Unger" <unger at tfa dot tu-darmstadt dot de>
- Subject: Re: Egcs on Linux/Alpha (RH4.2)
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 19:49:33 -0700
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199801221041.LAA01533@luchs.tfa.maschinenbau.tu-darmstadt.de>you
write:
> it looks like I succesfully compiled egcs-1.0.1-1 on RH4.2-Linux/Alpha
> (PC164, 500MHz, 256MB RAM):
Agreed -- test results look pretty typical for alphas.
> alphaev5-unknown-linux-gnulibc1,
> but how to interpret the output of the check-routine is not said on
Right. We never got around to writing suitable text on how to interpret
testresults.
> http://www.cygnus.com/egcs/install/test.html
> and my question is: can I safely install egcs in /usr and by doing
> this overwrite my existing gcc???
That's up to you -- the test results look good, but only you can decide
if you want to overwrite your system compiler.
Note that by default egcs will install itself into /usr/local/...,
which shouldn't overwrite your system compiler.
jeff