gcc-2.9x & gcc-3.3x peacfully coinciding?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:46:42PM -0400, Net Llama! wrote:
>I'm attempting to parse how to safely build & install gcc-3.3 so that it
>will peacefull coincide with gcc-2.96.  What i'm not understanding is how
>to do it.  If i do a normal build/install of gcc-3.3, isn't it going to
>overwrite the pre-existing version unless i install it somewhere
>non-traditional?  And if i install it somewhere non-traditional, how do i
>allow make to use it for future builds?

There's a build option in gcc to have it build in its own directory so
that's out of the way when you don't want to use it.

We've been using the openpkg.org packaging system which builds it as gcc2
so it's as easy as saying CC=gcc2.

Bill
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