[wplug] Installation directories

[DAVID G MATTHEWS]

I've also heard about problems with gcc3 as well as 2.96, especially if
you're trying to build something written in C++ rather than C.  2.95 has
done good by me.
-dgm


On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu wrote:

> I've heard that Redhat distributed a broken version of gcc with 7,
> but gcc-3.0-only may not be the route to go... I've yet to hear of
> a person successfully building a kernel using gcc3 on i386 at least.
> 
> Perhaps getting egcs 2.91 for critical applications may be advisable.
> 
> /usr/local is the autoconf default, the rationale for which may be
> to stay out of package managers' way... they supposedly should not
> touch /usr/local (don't know about RPMs...)
> 
> PATH is set in /etc/profile, and in .bash_profile, which are
> executed for login-shells.
> 
> You can add to the PATH in your .bash_profile using:
> export PATH=$PATH:/new/directory
> 
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:01:55AM -0400, Weber, Larry A wrote:
> > 
> > I heard at the GUM there might be problems with the gcc (Ver. 2.96) that is
> > provided with RedHat 7.1.  So this week I decided to update to gcc 3.0.  I
> > went through the configure - make - make install process and everything went
> > well.  However the default installation directory is /usr/local/bin while
> > the original RedHat provided gcc is in /usr/bin.  I noticed that many of the
> > apps I have installed default to the /usr/local directory.  Is this some
> > sort of Linux standard?
> > 
> > Now I have two versions of gcc.  Any ideas on how to cleanly remove the
> > 2.96, and can I move the 3.0 rev.?
> > 
> > I would consider blowing away 2.96 and changing my path to search /usr/local
> > first.  When I echo $PATH I find that several directories are repeated.  I
> > have checked the bashrc file but cannot find anything there that sets PATH.
> > Does anyone know where PATH is being set?
> > 
> > -laweber
> > 
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