Can't install gcc 3.2 alongside gcc 2.96 on Red Hat 7.3

[Jonathan Watt]

lrtaylor@micron.com wrote:

> If you install it now, it won't overwrite anything that your old
> compiler uses, but it will install the binaries using the same name,
> meaning that you would need to adjust your path so that the compiler you
> want to use comes first.  You can give an option to configure that
> specifies a command suffix to use (such as 3 - giving gcc3).
> Reconfigure GCC using your preferred suffix and rebuild it.  Then you
> should be OK.  To use it, people could then just use gcc3, etc.
> 
> Cheers,
> Lyle
> 

So the only way to make the old gcc the default is to change everyone's 
PATH so that /usr/bin comes before /usr/local/bin? I guess on a lot of 
systems this could cause major problems by causing old versions of other 
programs to suddenly become the default. However, since /usr/local/bin 
is currently empty, and it is highly unlikely anyone else will be 
installing into it, it should be safe for this change to be made.

Thanks for that.

Jonathan