[CentOS] Upgrading CentOS 5.2 to use gcc 4.x

Thu Jul 23 17:49:03 UTC 2009
Patrick May <patrickm at gigaspaces.com>

    'yum upgrade' did the trick.  554 MB and 318 packages later and I have
gcc 4.1.2.

Thanks,

Patrick


On 7/23/09 12:08 PM, "Lorenzo Quatrini" <lorenzo.quatrini at gmail.com> wrote:

> Patrick May ha scritto:
>>     I have a CentOS 5.2 installation with gcc 3.4.6 as the default.  I'd
>> like to upgrade the entire gcc tool chain, including libraries, to 4.x in
>> order to build some software that requires 4.1.0 or better.  Can I do this
>> easily through yum?  If I upgrade to 5.3 will I get gcc 4.x by default?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Patrick
>> 
> Yes, I guess: on my pc I get
> 
> rpm -q centos-release
> centos-release-5-3.el5.centos.1.i386
> 
> rpm -q gcc
> gcc-4.1.2-44.el5.i386