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In article <12921@ztivax.UUCP> lauther@ztivax.siemens.com (Ulrich Lauther) writes:
>I am currently running gcc-2.1 under SCO UNIX on a 486.
>
>Is it worth while to switch to 2.2.2, and if I do so, can I use gcc-2.1 to
>install 2.2.2 or will I have to start from scratch?

For at least the C++ part of the compiler, it's definitely worth it; there
are many bug fixes, especially for templates, which were almost unusable
(at least for me) until 2.2.2 (there are still some problems, but most of
them can now be worked around).  Quite a few core dumps have also been
removed.

You should be able to just build 2.2.2 with 2.1 and use it after the first
build (rather than bootstrapping and building it twice).  Don't forget
the following warning, from the INSTALL file:

        If you are building with a previous GNU C compiler, do not use
     `CC=gcc' on the make command or by editing the Makefile. 
     Instead, use a full pathname to specify the compiler, such as
     `CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc'.  This is because make might execute the
     `gcc' in the current directory before all of the compiler
     components have been built.

(I suppose you could avoid this problem by having "." come last, rather
than first, on your path; then you could just say make CC=gcc.  Right?).




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