help please!

help please!

[Sarah Gosselin]

Hi!
I am a student in programing and I am used to work in a Sun lab
(using Unix). I write programs in C++. At school, I go in the console
(or terminal) and type g++ nameofprogram.cc and it compiles it.
However, I have no idea what to do with my iMac (I have the Mac OS
X). I went into the terminal and tried typing all the possible
entries and nothing worked so far. So please, could you tell me how
it works and also how to save my documents so that they get read as
C++ (or G++) documents.
Thank you for your time

Sarah Gosselin

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Re: Help please?

[Andrea 'Fyre Wyzard' Bocci]

At 12.46 13/11/01 (GMT +0200), you wrote:
>Hi
>
>Excuse me if this is dumb or stupid. I need gcc 3.0 to get another program 
>to work and I've got RedHat 7.1 with gcc 2.96. I've downloaded 
>gcc-3.0.2.tar and installed it in /usr/local/sbin. When I run "rpm -q gcc" 
>it still reports the old version. Do I have to uninstall the old version 
>or do I install the new one over it ie. in the same directory. In other 
>words where do I install the new version.
>
>I'm new to this Linux, compile etc. thing
>
>Thanks

Hi

The RPM database (which holds a list of all the packages you have 
installed, and their dependencies) knows nothing of software you "manually" 
compile and install.
So, the simplest thing to do would be to leave the RPM packege as it is, 
and compile the 3.0.2 sources and install them in, eg., /urc/local. By the 
way, I think this is the default behaviour for the gcc configure script.

Anyway, if you don't mind sticking to 3.0.1 instead of 3.0.2, you can 
download the RedHat RPMs for it: just searh for gcc3 on fr2.rpmfind.net.
I think the relevant packages are:
gcc3-3.0.1-3.i386.rpm
gcc3-c++-3.0.1-3.i386.rpm
gcc3-g77-3.0.1-3.i386.rpm
gcc3-java-3.0.1-3.i386.rpm
gcc3-objc-3.0.1-3.i386.rpm
libgcc-3.0.1-3.i386.rpm
libgcj3-3.0.1-3.i386.rpm
libgcj3-devel-3.0.1-3.i386.rpm
libstdc++3-3.0.1-3.i386.rpm
libstdc++3-devel-3.0.1-3.i386.rpm
You can't uninstall gcc 2.96, as the RedHat 3.0.1 RPMs require some 2.96 
libraries.

Hope this helps,
fwyzard

Help please?

[Sarel Theron]

Hi

Excuse me if this is dumb or stupid. I need gcc 3.0 to get another 
program to work and I've got RedHat 7.1 with gcc 2.96. I've downloaded 
 gcc-3.0.2.tar and installed it in /usr/local/sbin. When I run "rpm -q 
gcc" it still reports the old version. Do I have to uninstall the old 
version or do I install the new one over it ie. in the same directory. 
In other words where do I install the new version.

I'm new to this Linux, compile etc. thing

Thanks

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Sarel Theron
Computer Systems Engineer
The Video Lab
South Africa
Tel: +27 (0)11 293 3123		Fax: +27 (0)11 293 3090
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