On 20 July 2017 at 20:44, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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.) N.B if the intention was for $HOME/gcc-4.6.2 and $PWD/../gcc-4.6.2 to be the same I wouldn't have written it two different ways.
