Recently we had to download gcc
from version 4.8.5
to 4.8.2
.
We were trying to compile some tools and they required using that older version of gcc
.
To compile the old version of the gcc
we used the version version that was shipped with the distribution.
Methodology
#Making sure we are not missing any 32bit libraries since we are on a 64bit machine yum install glibc.i686 ncurses-libs.i686; #Download the source code wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc-4.8.2.tar.gz; #Extract the files tar -xvf gcc-4.8.2.tar.gz; #Navigate to the folder cd gcc-4.8.2/; #Make sure we have all dependencies met ./contrib/download_prerequisites; #Configure the installation and assign the installation folder to be /usr/local/gcc/4.8.2. Finally make all necessary checks before compilation. ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gcc/4.8.2; #Build make; #Install sudo make install;
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