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* What's the recommended linux distro to build gcc?
@ 2018-09-29 19:27 rih5342
  2018-09-30  0:28 ` Dennis Clarke
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: rih5342 @ 2018-09-29 19:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gcc-help

Hi, new gcc user here.

What's the recommended linux distro to build gcc?

Thank you.



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* Re: What's the recommended linux distro to build gcc?
  2018-09-29 19:27 What's the recommended linux distro to build gcc? rih5342
@ 2018-09-30  0:28 ` Dennis Clarke
  2018-09-30 12:06   ` Jonathan Wakely
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Dennis Clarke @ 2018-09-30  0:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gcc-help

On 09/29/2018 03:06 PM, rih5342 wrote:
> Hi, new gcc user here.
> 
> What's the recommended linux distro to build gcc?

Use anything you are comfortable with and I recommend either Debian 9 or
a recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  Be sure to build the dependencies as
you will need libgmp and libmpfr and a few others.

Dennis

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* Re: What's the recommended linux distro to build gcc?
  2018-09-30  0:28 ` Dennis Clarke
@ 2018-09-30 12:06   ` Jonathan Wakely
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jonathan Wakely @ 2018-09-30 12:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: rih5342; +Cc: gcc-help, Dennis Clarke

On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 at 20:27, Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote:
>
> On 09/29/2018 03:06 PM, rih5342 wrote:
> > Hi, new gcc user here.
> >
> > What's the recommended linux distro to build gcc?

This question doesn't really make sense. You don't install a distro
just to build GCC, you build GCC to use with your existing system.
What are you trying to achieve? If you just want to use GCC, every
GNU/Linux distro already provides GCC packages for you. Just install a
recent distro and you'll have a recent GCC.

> Use anything you are comfortable with and I recommend either Debian 9 or
> a recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  Be sure to build the dependencies as
> you will need libgmp and libmpfr and a few others.

No, don't build the dependencies manually to build GCC (except in
special circumstances, and if you're asking this question that doesn't
apply to you). See https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC

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