RHEL 7.6

[Xi Ruoyao]

On 2019-03-06 20:11 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> On 3/6/19 7:32 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, 2019-03-06 at 18:13 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > > That is the best answer here.  For some obscure reason more and more
> > > people have forgotten that open source means you can freely go get
> > > the sources and just build it. However the distro-masses are large
> > > and loud and they just want what they want and no idea that the whole
> > > source base is there freely.
> > 
> > Building a complex piece of software like GCC is not quite so easy as
> > "./configure && make", especially when you need it to interoperate with
> > systems that may have been built with much older versions (there are
> > issues around STL versioning etc. which are not always trivial to
> > resolve).

It's almost so easy as "./configure && make":

contrib/download_prerequisites && mkdir build && cd build &&
../configure --prefix=$HOME/toolchain && make

> > I get why people are more interested in having someone else do that
> > work for them: not everyone has time to learn to do everything.
> > 
> 
> "not everyone has time ..."
> 
> The most true words on the internet today.

Then use the most simple way: get a gcc-latest Docker image! :)
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Xi Ruoyao <xry111@mengyan1223.wang>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University