Newbie : GCC, Monolithic kernel

[m.w.chang]

no. not 'make'.  `make bootstrap`
linux-sxs.org has an article on compiling gcc. read it first.
it worked for me.

> I did not read this anywhere yet.  It seemed to be spelled out 
> pretty well on the installing GCC configuration page as simply;
> configure
> make
> make install.

linux-sxs' article  didn't used these 5 options....the rest are similar.

>        --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs
>        --with-included-gettext
>        --with-gnu-as=/usr/i386-linux/bin
>        --with-gnu-ld=/usr/i386-linux/bin
>        --enable-threads=posix

I rather follow traditions and install everything below /usr.
you can always reinsatll the old gcc without ill effects after removing 
the new version. also, learn to use checkinstall-1.5.2, It's a great 
tool to build rpm using the output of `make install`.

> I editted the /etc/config.d/shells/bashrc  
> file, and altered the statement for the enviroment from
> /usr/local/bin, to /usr/local/gcc-2.95.3/bin.

ldconfig -v

> Since I did not know the command to re-read the ld.so.  cache, 

i don't think reboot can force a ldconfig -v .. not sure.. maybe your 
linux distribution do things differently.

> since if I logged out, the profile would automatically change
> when I logged back in.  So I rebooted.

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