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In article <9210061955.AA07659@sde.mdso.vf.ge.com> tootill@sde.mdso.vf.ge.COM (Tootill Ed) writes:
>I need expanded installation instructions for g++ compiler.

You mean, for g++-1.4x, for some x.  I would recommend against the use
of this compiler.  Some of RMS's comments seem to imply the reverse
(e.g. the 1.x version is more stable), but he's talking about the C
part.  None of the extensive effort Cygnus and others have made towards
fixing g++ has been applied to the 1.x compiler; meanwhile, entropy
has probably made it worse.  I'd suggest using 1.40.3 in preference
to later versions, og g++-1.x, since I know I made 1.40.3 work for me.

It is true that gcc-1.42 is the "maintained for stability" version.  But
it does not follow by any means that g++-1.41.x or g++-1.42.x should be
used.  Its intallation procedure is very complex, and it is also
considerably buggier than g++-2.2.2.  Don't even try virtual base classes,
for example.  Also, no templates.

g++-2.2.2 is included in gcc-2.2.2.  Simply install gcc-2.2.2 and you'll
get the C++ part as well.

>Rhetorical comment: Why is "free" synonymous with "who needs
>documentation, let them figure it out the hard way".

Because people haven't been as good about producing and giving away
documentation as they've been about giving away code.  Don't like it?
Write some!  Often a knowledgeable user is a better candidate than the
original author to write good documentation, because the programmer
"knows too much" and isn't always conscious of what the user *doesn't*
know.

But I think you'll find the installation instructions included with
gcc-2.2.2 much easier to follow.



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