[CentOS] Package of GCC 12 on CentOS 7

Mon Jun 20 13:20:46 UTC 2022
Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org>

On 2022-06-20 05:03, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-06-20 at 09:31 +0100, david allan finch wrote:
>> Is there an rpm of GCC 12 (or at least higher than 9) available to
>> download and install, or is it a case of downloading and build from 
>> the
>> source yourself?
>> 
> That's what Software Collections is for.
> 
>   https://www.softwarecollections.org/
> 
> Specifically you need one of the devtoolset collections - it goes up to
> 11 which, unsurprisingly, provides gcc-11 on CentOS 7. So:
> 
> # yum install centos-release-scl
> # yum install devtoolset-11
> # scl enable devtoolset-11 bash
> 
> and gives:
> 
> # gcc -v
> Using built-in specs.
> COLLECT_GCC=gcc
> COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/opt/rh/devtoolset-11/root/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/11/lto-wrapper
> Target: x86_64-redhat-linux
> Configured with: ../configure --enable-bootstrap
> --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,lto
> --prefix=/opt/rh/devtoolset-11/root/usr
> --mandir=/opt/rh/devtoolset-11/root/usr/share/man
> --infodir=/opt/rh/devtoolset-11/root/usr/share/info
> --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-shared
> --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --enable-multilib
> --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit
> --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object
> --enable-linker-build-id --with-gcc-major-version-only
> --with-linker-hash-style=gnu
> --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=gcc4-compatible --enable-plugin
> --enable-initfini-array
> --with-isl=/builddir/build/BUILD/gcc-11.2.1-20210728/obj-x86_64-redhat-linux/isl-install
> --enable-gnu-indirect-function --with-tune=generic
> --with-arch_32=x86-64 --build=x86_64-redhat-linux
> Thread model: posix
> Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib
> gcc version 11.2.1 20210728 (Red Hat 11.2.1-1) (GCC)
> 
> P.

Pete,

As David was asking about obtaining and installing GCC 12, wouldn't 
installing GCC 11, as noted above,  leave him downlevel?

-- 
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