I find myself in a bit of a quandary! I've been using SuSE v6.4 since it came out and have been generally satisfied. However, several of the large software packages that I use for my research are written in FORTRAN and are best compiled in egcs As a consequence I've been playing around with Mandrake 7.2 on an experimental partition, primarily because egcs is included in that distribution (although I have to admit that I would rather use CUPS for my networked printer, but that's a separate issue). Sorry for the long-winded introduction. The question is - can I use egcs from the Mandrake distribution in the place of the stock SuSE 6.4 compiler? Comments will be most appreciated. Thanks in advance
* Stephen@suse.com, P.Molnar@suse.com, "Ph.D." <smolnar@jadeinc.com> [Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:27:41 -0500]:
I find myself in a bit of a quandary! I've been using SuSE v6.4 since it came out and have been generally satisfied. However, several of the large software packages that I use for my research are written in FORTRAN and are best compiled in egcs
EGCS doesn't exist anymore as EGCS became GCC. The current release as of Saturday is 2.95.3. If you want to stay with 6.4, I'd suggest you grab the source rpm for SuSE ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/pthomas/gcc/gcc-2.95.3-13.src.rpm and build your own packages from this. This is rather easy: - download the package - change to user root - install it via 'rpm -i' - compile binary packages by 'rpm -bp /usr/src/packages/SPECS/gcc.spec' - after build has completed, you'll find installable RPMs in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386. This will give you the most recent GCC. -- Penguins to save the dinosaurs -- Handelsblatt on Linux for S/390
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