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- From: hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu)
- Subject: Re: GCC questions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.185326.23062@serval.net.wsu.edu>
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- References: <1992Aug18.162006.13422@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 18:53:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.162006.13422@athena.mit.edu>, chchen@stat.fsu.edu (Ching-Hsiang Chen) writes:
- |> I've upgraded to GCC 2.2.2d yesterday. By reading FAQ for GCC and FAQ for
- |> Linux, I still have some questions:
- |>
- |> 1. The FAQ says I should get rid of gcc older than 2.2.2. But how about
- |> 2.2.2 itself? With 2.2.2 and 2.2.2d together, I don't have much more
- |> hard disk space left. Should I used the method suggested in Linux FAQ,
- |> which means I need to use some device to detect the depending version
- |> of all the binaries compiled by GCC and then recompile the older ones?
- |>
-
- You only need gcc 2.2.2 for X386 v1.1 which will be replaced by a new one
- soon. Please read release.2.2.2d and make your own decision.
-
- |> 2. Having only 2 introductory C books on hand and a simple GCC man page,
- |> Should I keep all the stuffs in the following 3 directories if I don't
- |> write C programs myself and just use GCC to compile new utilities and
- |> use them?
- |>
- |> /lib/*.*
- |> /usr/lib/...../i386-linux/2.2.2d/*.*
- |> /usr/lib/...../i386-linux/2.2.2d/shared/*.*
- |>
- |>
-
- You need them.
-
- |> Steve Chen chchen@stat.fsu.edu
- |>
-
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- H.J.
- Gcc/libc maintainer for Linux.
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