compiling and installing gcc

[Bradley J. Bartram]

On Monday 18 February 2002 03:34 am, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using linux mandrake 8.0. I needed gcc 3.0+ to
> compile something, but I had older version (2.96) that
> came with the mandrake CD. So I downloaded gcc 3.0.3
> and compiled and installed it by following the
> instructions at the gcc website. Everything went fine
> and I did not notice any errors during the process.
> However, when I tried to compile what I was compiling
> before, it still detected the old version of gcc. Any
> idea whats going on here?
>

With Mandrake, if you have a second GCC installed, like your situation, you 
have to explicitly call that particular version.  So instead of compiling 
using GCC, you would instead compile using GCC-3 or something to that effect. 
 Of course using command aliases and such, you can mask that differently or 
replace GCC altogether with the new version.

Cheers

Brad