On 2019-03-06 20:11 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 3/6/19 7:32 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-03-06 at 18:13 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > That is the best answer here. For some obscure reason more and more > > > people have forgotten that open source means you can freely go get > > > the sources and just build it. However the distro-masses are large > > > and loud and they just want what they want and no idea that the whole > > > source base is there freely. > > > > Building a complex piece of software like GCC is not quite so easy as > > "./configure && make", especially when you need it to interoperate with > > systems that may have been built with much older versions (there are > > issues around STL versioning etc. which are not always trivial to > > resolve). It's almost so easy as "./configure && make": contrib/download_prerequisites && mkdir build && cd build && ../configure --prefix=$HOME/toolchain && make > > I get why people are more interested in having someone else do that > > work for them: not everyone has time to learn to do everything. > > > > "not everyone has time ..." > > The most true words on the internet today. Then use the most simple way: get a gcc-latest Docker image! :) -- Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University
