Re: Where find rpm?

[Dave Steffen <steffend at helicon dot physics dot colostate dot edu>]

> I installed egcs-1.0.2-8 on my linux laptop using the pre-compiled
> rpm distribution from http://www.redhat.com, and loved the ease of
> not having to compile anything.  Does anyone know where I can get an
> rpm of the latest version, 1.1?  Unfortunately, the RedHat site
> doesn't have it yet.  ;-)

  There _is_ a 1.1b rpm file out there... check out 
  <http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/index.html>

  but I wouldn't necessarily reccomend its use.

  AFAIK there are some OS issues... I'm not sure the kernel compiles
  reliably under EGCS (which is why Redhat ships with gcc 2.7.2.3),
  and you may or may not have to upgrade the system libraries, which
  may or may not break parts of the OS.

  We decided that we wouldn't screw with the system compiler or
  libraries, since we didn't know what the effects would be. Instead,
  we configured with --prefix=/opt/egcs, and built it from
  scratch. The install process is _extremely_ straightforward on Linux;
  IIRC my involvement consisted of:
 
 ../configure --prefix=/opt/egcs
 make bootstrap
 make install
 make clean

  and that was it. The build may take an hour or three, though,
  depending on how athletic your laptop is. ;-)

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