[jessejlt]

I'm a CS student, and use my iBook for coding all my programs, less IA-32 specific assembly, at which point I SSH into a Debian box I have. Dependent on the class I'm taking, the GCC build that the professors use to compile our code changes. I solve this by coding on my iBook, and then when the code is complete, I upload the source to whatever rig the professors will be using to compile the code, just to make sure that that particular GCC compiles the code just fine. I rarely run into trouble, but I was reading a mac / unix book and it appears that there might be an easier way. I found that gcc_select 2 will switch my version of GCC to 2.95, and gcc_select 3 will bring my GCC back to default 3.1. Is there a way for me to add other GCC builds to this gcc_select command? Can I have it select between more than 2 gcc builds? What's the limit?
Thanks;
jesse ;-)

[Rickster]

The /usr/bin/cc or gcc you typically reference in the shell or in PB is just a symlink to the /usr/bin/gcc2 or /usr/bin/gcc3 binary. And /usr/sbin/gcc_select is just a shell script to conveniently automate the process of changing which binary the symlink points to.

So if you wanted to add additional versions of gcc to your installation, you could install them with unique names in, say, /usr/local/bin, and then edit gcc_select so it knows how to switch among them and put it in /usr/local/sbin.

[Rickster]

[Edit: double post]