please include g++ support when building gfortran binaries

Steve Kargl sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Sun Sep 7 17:35:00 GMT 2008


On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 12:53:33PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Steve Kargl wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 11:47:34AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> >> 
> >> If that is not possible, is there any web site where I can download the
> >> binaries of gcc-4.3, gfortran-4.3, g++-4.3 for a 64-bit x86_64 machine
> >> running CentOS release 5? I do not have root access to this machine, so
> >> something that allows user-level installation would be great.
> >> 
> > 
> > Is there a problem with downloading the source code and building
> > your set of tools?
> > 
> 
> I am not having any significant issues with compiling the source code as
> such. But downloading source and compiling requires large investment in
> terms of space and time for the end user.

It is also a large investment in time and space for the person
that is kindly providing the current binaries.

Additionally, if an end user downloads the source code and
builds their own set of tools (which is the official GCC method
of getting the binaries), the end user can run 'make check'
to help with Q&A.

-- 
Steve



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