Multiple gcc

Brian Truter btruter at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 21:43:32 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Giany <giany007 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:41:50AM -0400, Mauriat Miranda wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Jakub Jelinek<jakub at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 04:16:51PM -0500, Brian Truter wrote:
>> > >> Is it possible to install multiple gcc packages on Fedora?
>> > >>
>> > >> I am using gcc 4.4 from Fedora 11, but I would also like to install
>> 4.3 from
>> > >> Fedora 10, and switch compiles when needed by setting env variables,
>> or
>> > >> something similar. Is this possible, and if so, does anyone have any
>> info?
>> > >
>> > > Just rpm2cpio the other gcc to a different directory.
>> > > mkdir ~/gcc-4.3 && cd ~/gcc-4.3
>> > > for i in *-4.3*.rpm; do rpm2cpio $i | cpio -pduv; done
>> > >
>> > > and then
>> > > ~/gcc-4.3/usr/bin/gcc
>> > > ~/gcc-4.3/usr/bin/g++
>> > > ~/gcc-4.4/usr/bin/gfortran
>> > > etc. should just work.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Curious, would the '--prefix' flag for RPM help?
>>
>> Likely, yes.
>>
>
> Likely, no.
>
> [root at localhost log]# rpm -qi gcc
> Name        : gcc                          Relocations: (*not relocatable*
> )
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I tried a few of the suggestions here, but no luck so far. Too many
dependencies involved it seems to sort it all out
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