egcs - how to know if it's there and what ver
Claude Jones
claude_jones at levitjames.com
Mon Mar 28 18:30:53 UTC 2005
Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 13:02 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
>
>>Subject says it all: I'm trying to install something from source and
>>one of several top installation problems listed in the howto is:
>>egcs older than 2.91.66 (1.1.2)
>>other install requirements I've been able to determine, but I can't find
>>any description of how to tell whether I have egcs, and if so what ver -
>>a 'locate egcs' yielded up three cryptic log files
>
>
> egcs was a fork of the gcc compiler, and has since been remerged into
> gcc (or renamed to gcc, whatever). If you are running a Fedora release,
> you don't have (and don't need) egcs unless you did something special to
> install an old version. gcc should work for you.
>
Thanks to this suggestion from another post,
"One methoid is to forget the mailman archives and go to:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list",
I was able to search the fedora-list archives on 'egcs' and get to a
couple of wikipedia references that explained it just as you describe -
thanks for responding.
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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA
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