Hello forum,

This is probably an age old question, but what would I type in the terminal window to tell it which compiler to use to compile an unzipped tarball, assuming I have two compilers with different version numbers? I am trying to make it use the lower version, gcc3.3 but it always uses the higher version (gcc-4.0.1-5) by default. I am trying to compile the latest version of Mplayer but I get a message saying I need to use the lower version, gcc3.3, for best results.

I am able to only get this far:

[root@localhost MPlayer-1.0pre7try2]# gcc-$(gcc3.3-version)
gcc-3.3.6: no input files
[root@localhost MPlayer-1.0pre7try2]#

Am I on the right track so far?


Thanks,
Roy

`gcc-$(gcc3.3-version) file.c`

you can try to set an env variable CC, that's what should be used when issuing make
if the name of compiler is gcc-3.3, try this:

export CC=gcc-3.3
make