RE: [Linux-ia64] Back to the future: which gcc for kernel 2.4.18

["Wichmann, Mats D" <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>]

>>Is there a clean way to do that for an unexperimented gcc user, in
>>particular, can we have a gcc3.1 like installation that allows keeping 
>>the gcc2.96 ?

>I'd suggest trying something like
>        ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-3.1/gcc-3.1.tar.bz2
>It shouldn't be too hard to build and install this. 

In fact, if you just accept the default configure, the gcc built
from this tree will install into /usr/local and not step on
the existing gcc (but watch your paths).  You're also pretty 
much sure to end up needing a late-model binutils (the
current gnu release is 2.12.1, I believe) as gcc3 will,
depending on circumstances, emit some debugging stuff that the 
linker can't handle if it's not recent enough.