[CentOS] Need to update gcc to version >=6 on CentOS 7 ?

Wed Sep 11 16:16:46 UTC 2019
Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com>

On 9/11/19 9:05 AM, John Chludzinski wrote:
>
> How do I go about updating gcc to version 6 or greater on my CentOS 7
> machine? And do so safely?


The easiest way is going to be to use software collections:

https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-7/

devtoolset 7 will install gcc 7 in a directory in /opt, which will not 
conflict or interfere with existing system packages. When you want to 
use gcc 7, you'd start a new shell with a modified path and other 
environment variables using:

   scl enable devtoolset-7 bash