egcs - how to know if it's there and what ver

[Aaron Gaudio]

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.