Unskilled physicist buiding 3.0.4 on Cygwin

[Kevin Bailey]

Wouldn't giving configure the --program-suffix="-3" flag
be wiser than renaming things after the fact ?

On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:52:03PM -0000, Stephano Mariani wrote:
> Perhaps this will help:
> 
> Get a copy of GCC (If you can't do that, give up now)
> Then in the directory you extracted your sources, run
> "./configure --enable-language=c,c++,f77 --disable-libgcj".
> After that is complete, run "make bootstrap". After that is complete,
> run "make install".
> Then cd to your /usr/local/bin and rename the new files that are
> installed there to something unique (I recommend a suffix of "3", so
> that you can call the new gcc as gcc3).
> 
> Enjoy :)
> 
> Stephano Mariani