I'm interested in trying out an Athlon-optimized gcc (www.athlonlinux.org); this involves patching 2.95.2 and recompiling.
The docs are not totally clear to this clueless non-programmer about the options to use for the configure step, but I chose the following: hpotter:/usr/local/obj# ../src/gcc-2.95.2/configure --enable-haifa --enable-shared --enable-threads --enable-cpp --enable-cpplib --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/local/include --with-dwarf2 --with-stabs where I had created /usr/local/obj for the objdir mentioned in the docs, and have the sources in /usr/local/src/gcc-2.95.2 (obviously, from the above). Does this make sense? I could not make heads or tails about the other options mentioned. I am particularly concerned that what I create will not interfere with the normal gcc I wish to leave in /usr/bin. Is there any way that the above will mess up the other one or its libs, etc? Lastly, the totally dumb question of the day is How would I use it w/o having the other one interfere when I try compiling various package sources? I use Debian (Woody), FWIW. Thanks for any help! Kenward -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! --
