Re: Changing gcc

[Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>]

On 01-Apr-2003, djfm <djfm at wanadoo dot fr> wrote:
> 
> I'm new to Linux , I am under mandrake 8.2 , and I wanted to upgrade my
> gcc native compiler (2.96) to the last 3.2.2 , I downloaded it on
> gcc.gnu.org , and followed the compilation instructions. Or I may
> suppose to have done so. I've made a "make bootstrap" , all seem to have
> worked correctly , now I have the binaries and libraries installed in
> usr/local/ but they have not self-replaced the old ones. 

Leave the old files where they are, and just change your PATH
environment variable so that /usr/local/bin (or whereever you installed
the new gcc) is included at the start.

E.g. if you are using bash, you can add the following line to your
~/.bash_profile file:

	PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

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