Multiple Installs of gcc

[Robert McNulty Junior]

When you configure, use --prefix=/usr/local/gcc-1etc/
then, set up your path to that one.
Cygwin makes it easy.
TO delete that directory, use the KDE desktop, point to home, and go to 
the directory where you put gcc-3.3 or gcc-3.4.
HTH
Robert

Joseph Felps wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm having a hard time installing gcc into it's own folder.  Say if I 
> wanted to install it in /usr/local/GCC.  I then added that to my PATH 
> but I was having linker problems with update-alternatives.  I'm not 
> really sure how to use it.  I would just like to know the best way to 
> install multiple versions, so that it's easy to uninstall them.
>
>