Re: How to get compiler changed to gcc-3.20

[John Foster <jfoster@augustmail.com>]

Oliver Fuchs wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, John Foster wrote:
>
>  
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> > I have set the variables in /etc/environment to the following
> >
> > ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf
> > # Do not edit within this region if you want your changes to be preserved
> > # by debconf.  Instead, make changes before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION
> > # FOR localeconf" line, and/or after the "### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR
> > # localeconf" line.
> > LANG=en_US
> > ### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf
> > CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.2
> > GCC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.2
> > CPP=/usr/bin/cpp-3.2
> >    
>
> Hi,
> the /usr/share/doc/gcc-3.0-base/README.Debian.gz says:
>
> How are the default compilers selected?
> ---------------------------------------
>
> [...]
> This may seem confusing, but what it allows you do to is install two
> versions of the GCC compiler suite at the same time, making sure you are
> always using the one preferred for that architecture. To use the other
> compiler, simply set CC=gcc-3.0, or similar.
> [...]
>
> That seems to be in your file. If you have installed the gcc-3.2 why not simply
> link /usr/bin/gcc to /usr/bin/gcc-3.2.
>
> Oliver
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Thanks I thought of that, but I need to also have access to the 2.95.4 
the 3.0 and still need the 3.20 versions to handle specefic dependencies 
for non-Debian compiles that I do. I finally did as another poster 
suggested and simply changed all to references to gcc-3.20 in the 
Makefile in the kernel src directory. That solved the issues completely. 
Someone pointed out that the Makefile ignores the environment variables 
anyway and that proved to be true in my case.
Thanks.
John

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