On 20 July 2017 at 18:24, Sebastian Kroppen wrote: > Hello, > > I have been in a situation where I needed to install a recent GCC from > scratch in my home directory (Linux). I do not have administrator > priviledges on my machine. > > I have followed an answer to a question on stackoverflow [1], which in turn > refers to a wiki page of yours [2]. > > [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/10662297/ > [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC/ > > I have replaced 4.6.2 with 7.1.0 in those commands. My configure command was > $PWD/../gcc-7.1.0/configure --prefix=$HOME/gcc-7.1.0 --disable-multilib > > Running make and make install completed without fatal errors. > > However, where do I find the executables? Did you try looking under the --prefix location? Specifically in $HOME/gcc-7.1.0/bin > More generally: how do I make GCC-7.1.0 available in my daily work? > > Yes, I am able to amend my path variable. So do that then :-) You might also want to read https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/faq.html#faq.how_to_set_paths > Additional question: > the script on the two linked pages seems to install GCC in the same > directory as the source files. Is that a good idea? No, it's a terrible idea, but it only does that if you unpack the source files in your home directory. I didn't think of that case when writing the wiki page (I would never litter my home directory with unpacked tarballs and "objdir", I'd do it in /tmp/ or a less permanent location.)
