Wanting to install egcs

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 34B290AE.4102FF53@arc-cfd.com >you write:
  > 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 ?
It depends on where your libraries & compilers are installed.

By default egcs will install itself into /usr/local/...; the "system"
compilers on Linux are in /usr/{bin,lib}, so normally egcs will not
overwrite the system compiler (or libraries for that matter)..

jeff