From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23815 invoked by alias); 12 May 2003 17:56:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 8839 invoked from network); 12 May 2003 17:47:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay04.valueweb.net) (216.219.253.238) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 May 2003 17:47:25 -0000 Received: from thor.valueweb.net ([216.219.254.23]:49133 "EHLO thor.valueweb.net") by relay04.valueweb.net with ESMTP id ; Mon, 12 May 2003 13:46:57 -0400 Received: from 237-7.200-68.tampabay.rr.com ([68.200.7.237]:44247 "EHLO coyotegulch.com") by thor.valueweb.net with ESMTP id ; Mon, 12 May 2003 13:47:00 -0400 Message-ID: <3EBFDE04.50507@coyotegulch.com> Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 17:56:00 -0000 From: Scott Robert Ladd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030430 Debian/1.3-5 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kunal Sachdeva CC: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Upgrade from 2.9 to 3.x? References: <20030512134636.51724.qmail@web20502.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030512134636.51724.qmail@web20502.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg01190.txt.bz2 Kunal Sachdeva wrote: > Can anyone suggest how can I upgrade it to 3.x keeping > in mind I have basic knowledge of Linux ? If I understand you correctly, you currently have GCC 2.9x, and you want to use GCC 3.3. Much depends on your distribution of Linux. As far as I know, every Linux dustribution installs a version of GCC, so you're probably using whatever came from whoever (SuSE, Red Hat, Debian, etc.) packaged your Linux. You may want to check with your Linux distributor; it's likely that an update to your Linux installation will automatically upgrade your GCC. Some Linux distributions include both GCC 2.9x and GCC 3.x, giving one or the other a special name (say, gcc-3) or using symbolic links to set which compiler you're using. If your Linux vendor does *not* have a newer version of GCC, you have two choices: 1) Change Linux distributions (which may be the easiest solution for a Linux novice) 2) Download the GCC source code, compile it, and install it yourself. The main gcc web site (http://gcc.gnu.org) has relatively clear documentation on configuring, compiling, and installing gcc from source. -- Scott Robert Ladd Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com)