Install stable latest gcc 4.4.x on a workstation (Kubuntu 9.04)

[Philip Herron]

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Tim wrote:
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> Hi, I wonder if someone by any chance happen to know how to install a
stable latest gcc (4.4.x) for a workstation under Kubuntu 9.04?
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> The reason I need gcc 4.4.x is that I would like to use Collapse in
OpenMP 3.0 which is only supported in GCC 4.4 and later version.
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> Stability is important since my administrator would like to make it
work on a workstation shared by many people at work. But I have seen so
many reports about the failure to install a stable gcc 4.4.x in the past
few months. For example, I saw this somewhere online:
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>     sudo apt-get install gcc-snapshot
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> which as gcc snapshot's website says is not a stable one.
>
> So I wonder if there is some way that can install a stable latest gcc
(4.4.x) for a workstation under Kubuntu 9.04? Even gcc 4.4.0 is fine as
long as it is stable and I assume it to have OpenMP 3.0. Or should I
wait till a stable release of gcc 4.4.x on Kubuntu 9.04 is out?
>
> Another question: is building gcc 4.4.x on someone's Home directory
from its source a good choice? Is it possible to not using root?
>
> Really appreciate your suggestion!
>
> Thanks and regards!
>
Hey

Well you have several choices i guess, you could either wait for the
next ubuntu release, but thats not very helpful :).

Or you could download yourself a tarball release of gcc and compile
and install it yourself. Which is probably the best solution.

http://gcc-uk.internet.bs/releases/gcc-4.4.0/

Thats the 4.4.0 releases if your just using C gcc-core is fine. But a
full gcc tarball the top item is probably best. It should come with
all the goodies you want. If you don't have root on the system your
deploying it to

./configure --prefix=$HOME/gcc-install

Don't worry about compiling your own GCC its not as awful as you might
think, you shouldn't have many problems. If your on ubuntu you could:

% aptitude install libmpfr-dev libgmp3-dev build-essential
% wget -c http://gcc-uk.internet.bs/releases/gcc-4.4.1/gcc-4.4.1.tar.bz2
% bunzip2 gcc-4.4.1.tar.bz2
% tar jxvf gcc-4.4.1.tar
% cd gcc-4.4.1
% ./configure --prefix=$HOME/gcc-install
% make
# go get lunch :)
% make install

This isn't quite so ideal as you would have to specify your direct
path to gcc in $HOME/gcc-install but its a start :) Though you could
add it to your path. But this is a pain your much better doing a full
install as root. If your on a work-station being shared you should get
root access to do this properly :)

I was thinking of maintaining my own debs of the latest gcc releases
somewhere i might look into doing this now might be helpful.

- --Phil
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