hhding wrote: > It seems ln /usr/bin/gcc is not a clean way. You can just use gcc-<version_number> where ever you are using gcc before. If you are configuring source, you can do something like ./configure CC=gcc-<version_number> hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/