From: "Andrew Crabtree" <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: gcc 2.8.0 and related things for DJGPP
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 13:22:55 -0800
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Vic wrote in message <34FFF7A6 DOT 27D3 AT cam DOT org>...
>Andrew Crabtree wrote:
>no, what I meant is, right now I can install DJGPP 2721 and then PGCC. I
>will have some sort of pentium optimising GCC 2721 (??)
No, no, no.  You misunderstand.  PGCC completely overwrites all of the gcc
2.7.2.1 stuff with its own files.
After installing pgcc you will have a pentium optimizing version of egcs
installed, regardless of what you started with.

>Can I do the same with 2.8.0?
Theoretically yes.  I haven't tried yet.  I know that Robert changed around
the search paths to allow more than more compiler to exist simultaneously,
but I think the default paths still work so PGCC should still work.  If
somebody tests this and wants to let me know I would appreciate it.  But,
there is no need to install gcc 2.8 over a pgcc install, and then try to
install pgcc again.

>Should I install 2.8.0 then PGCC?
Not if you already have pgcc installed.
> Do I keep the 2.8.0 GCC by doing this?
Partially, since it puts itself in other directories it wouldn't be fully
overridden.  It wouldn't really work though I think.  I may change pgcc to
install alongside gcc 2.8 in the future.


>(Do I have 2.8.0's advantages and stuff?)
All releases of PGCC (even the first snapshot from almost a year ago) have
had everything that gcc 2.8 supports (granted some things were broken off
and on).  So, pgcc 1.0.1 already has exception handling and the other c++
support.

HTH

Andy