GCC: where to compile it

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:13:06PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
>Feigning erudition, Joel Hammer wrote:
>%  I have downloaded the sources for gcc-2.95.3   
>%  
>%  I want to compile this thing, and it seems to config OK and make ok.
>%  I am totally confused on where this should go. The instructions from the
...
>For example:
>
>$ gzip -cd gcc-2.95.3.tar.gz | tar -xf -
>$ mkdir builddir
>$ cd builddir
>$ ../gcc-2.95.3/configure --prefix=/usr/local
>$ make bootstrap
>$ su 
>Password:
># make install

I think there is an option when compiling to do it in a private directory
so that it doesn't conflict with the system's installed compilers.  You can
break a lot of things on a LInux system by replacing gcc (notably most perl
modules are very dependent on the compiler, libraries, etc.).

There's been some discussion of this on the openpkg developers list in the
last few days started when somebody asked why their perl RPMS are dependent
on gcc.

Bill
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