how do you install a new c compiler

baronobeefdip · 09-29-2010, 10:41 AM

how do you do this without the package management programs some of the linux distribution's package management programs suck at finding the programs i wish to install on my machine and are usually short of variety (except for ubuntu and debian but thats too easy)

unSpawn · 09-29-2010, 11:19 AM

Either submit packages, build packages yourself or install from source.

baronobeefdip · 09-29-2010, 04:53 PM

how do you install the c comiler from source

evo2 · 09-29-2010, 05:33 PM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by baronobeefdip

how do you install the c comiler from source

I don't.

However if someone really wanted too, they could start here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/

Evo2.

John VV · 09-29-2010, 05:43 PM

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how do you install the c comiler from source

why
I can see doing it ONE time for the learning experience .
what distro are you using and what problems are you having
some like SUSE have gcc 4.5 installed by default ( fedora 13 gcc4.4 )
and some older code needs gcc 4.1 to build
If that is the problem install the legacy development tools for your distro

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some of the linux distribution's package management programs suck at finding the programs

??? please give explicit examples of this -- i have NEVER had a problem
using fedora from f4 to f11 ,OpenSUSE 11.3, Arch,CentOS 5.3,5.4,5.5