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Peter Lee wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to upgrade my version of gcc.  I followed the instructions by
> checking out the CVS tree, then running "cvs update"
> 
> Next, I made the directory in /usr/local/gcc/ using mkdir. Then I switched
> to /usr/local/gcc/ with cd.  Then I ran ran /root/Downloads/gcc/configure
> 
> Next, the whole thing was built with "make bootstrap"
> 
> Finally, "make install" was typed in.  That's about all the instructions
> given by GNU says to do at http://gcc.gnu.org/install/.  The problem is, I
> don't think that gcc was updated since I still get 2.9x when I type "what
> gcc"  I'm at a loss as to what to do now.
> 
> Thank you for the help,

Ooopsies. I've done this too.

First, try `which gcc` and you might find that it's /usr/bin/gcc

But you probably let it configure with the default prefix, which is
/usr/local

So, you are probably going to have a lot of messie to clean up.

But go back to your source code, and 

make clean ; make distclean ; rm config.cache

and when you reconfigure, if your `which gcc` returned "/usr/bin/gcc", then
configure with 

./configure --prefix=/usr

which will install the new gcc and libraries in more or less the proper
place. 

You might still wind up having to move and/or copy a lot of libraries that
will install in /usr/lib into /lib

take a good look to see if you have duplicate libraries in /lib /usr/lib and
/usr/local/lib -- try comparing a list and checking the dates they were
written to the drive, if you remember the date that you did this build.



> 
> Peter
> pelee@vt.edu

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