When I installed SuSE 6.3 I knew I'd want to compile sources and try a little programming. What I didn't (and still don't!) know was what all the packages were. When in doubt I installed it. I have been able to compile C and C++ programs, so I didn't do too badly. Looking now I appear to have several C compilers, egcs, g20egcs, g20gpp, gcc, and gpp. The descriptions that appear in Yast are too brief for me to tell which, if any, of these are superfluous. Can I safely delete any of these? TIA On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Nick Zentena wrote:
"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:
Do you have any ideas on rationlizing the installation so that it works the way the Gnu folk apparently intended? In particular, I'd like to have c++ call the current gcc. I'll download stuff from gnu.org if need be, though I'd prefer to use SuSE downloads because there are likely to be fewer configuration problems down the road.
Just go grab the tarball. With Suse 6.3 Gcc 2.95.2 compiled without any problems. With Suse 6.1 I only got 2.95.1 to work. Now I didn't try very hard to get the latest version working with Suse 6.1. It just takes so long to compile. Oh did I mention it takes a long time to compile the source. Makes a kernel compile look like it happens in an instant. At least on my two machines.
If you don't fiddle with the makefile everything gets put into /usr/local/bin. That means all the Suse stuff is still in /usr/bin. I haven't found anything that didn't work with the new compilers but if I did all I would need to do is rename the stuff in /usr/local/bin and let the stuff in /usr/bin to do thier job. My understanding is SuSE doesn't want to ship the newer gccs until they are stable on all the platforms that Suse ships for. Makes sense for them to want only one basic product to support.
Nick
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