davebot
October 13th, 2008, 12:51 PM
Hi,
First post, please be nice! :)
I'm currently running 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) on a very old and slow Pentium machine. (I don't want to upgrade, that's the whole point of Long Term Service!) GCC 4.0.3 is installed and working well, and according to apt-get, it's the latest version.
But gcc.gnu.org shows 4.3.2 as current. Is there any reason why I can't/shouldn't upgrade to this? If so, how do I do it, starting from the downloaded gcc-4.3.2.tar.gz file?
Is it possible to keep 4.0.3 too, so I can revert to it in case of problems?
Thanks in advance.
Dave
First post, please be nice! :)
I'm currently running 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) on a very old and slow Pentium machine. (I don't want to upgrade, that's the whole point of Long Term Service!) GCC 4.0.3 is installed and working well, and according to apt-get, it's the latest version.
But gcc.gnu.org shows 4.3.2 as current. Is there any reason why I can't/shouldn't upgrade to this? If so, how do I do it, starting from the downloaded gcc-4.3.2.tar.gz file?
Is it possible to keep 4.0.3 too, so I can revert to it in case of problems?
Thanks in advance.
Dave