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Re: What files need to be downloaded?
On March 6, 2003 11:50 pm, LLeweLLyn Reese wrote:
> Paul Schmidt <pschmidt at interlog dot com> writes:
> > Dear List:
> >
> > Environment:
> > Mandrake Linux 8.1
> > Intel Celeron
> > 64MB RAM
> >
> >
> > First question:
> > I would like to upgrade to GCC 3.2 from 2.96 and I am not sure what files
> > are actually needed. I only need C and C++. This isn't clear from the
> > Gcc website, and I currently use dialup, so I don't want to download
> > extra stuff.
>
> You need:
>
> gcc-core-3.2.2.tar.bz2 (core and c front-end)
> gcc-g++-3.2.2.tar.bz2 (c++ front-end and c++ libs)
>
> (both from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-3.2.2 , or your closest
> mirror.)
>
> The .bz2 files and the .gz files have the same content, but .bz2 is
> better compressed, which is probably prefferred if you have a
> modem, even though it takes a lot longer to decompress.
>
> > Second question:
> > Can you build Gcc 3.2 using 2.96?
>
> I think so. I've built 3.2 with 2.95.3, and I built 3.1 from 2.96, and
> then 3.2.2 from 3.1
I was wondering if there was any code in 3.2.2 that required 3.x features.....
since there isn't I'll try downloading it later and see what happens...
Thanks