GCC: where to compile it

Bill Campbell bill
Mon May 17 11:44:52 PDT 2004


On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 07:55:16PM -0800, stayler wrote:
>On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:41:12 -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
>
>>
>>I've built GCC more times the last year than I care to count, and I have
>>yet to blow up my system compiler.
>
>Kurt,
>
>I am wodering, do you reference the new GCC during builds or do you
>simply remove the older GCC?

PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"; export PATH

Then it will find the new gcc, not the old one.

Bill
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