Wanting to install egcs

[Joe Buck]

> I was wondering if the installation procedure of egcs on a Linux system
> will overwrite the current libraries and compilers (all GNU). If so will
> it break the current elf executables that I am running ?

No.  By default egcs will be installed in /usr/local/bin and put its
libraries in /usr/local/lib, which cannot interfere with your "official"
compiler or library.  Your existing executables and libraries will not be
affected.