On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 08:53:38 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 11:00:01PM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > How do you upgrade from gcc 2.9x to 3.2? Can't that be a perilous > > path? > > You don't "upgrade," really. The default configuration is to install > 3.2 in /usr/local, alongside whatever you already have. >
The upgrade path is to recompile everything that you have with the new compiler. The perilous part of the path is getting the sequence right, and anything that has mixed components (compiled with and without 3.2) will fail miserably. If you are a typical user of RPMs, you'll need to find a lot of RPMs, or use SRPMa ro rebuild everything. Most distros are beginning to provide 3.2 based installs, but these are a mixed bag at present, since they always drag in something poisonous (i.e. untested) in addition to 3.2. I've used a 3.2 based distro (gentoo), and it's totally innocuous, if done properly. OTOH, it's no fantastic improvement, so you're probably better off (TM) waiting for everything (binary plugins, especially) to catch up. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area Redhat 7.3 system _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
