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Can anyone tell me some general guidelines for building and installing a new GNU C Library, plus GCC (C, C++ and Java)? The last time I tried I couldn't quite understand the READMEs and documentation. I am using RedHat 7.1, and I want to uninstall GCC 2.96 and get 2.95 in, along with a version of the GNU C Library that will work with it. Which should I build and install first? Would it break my system to install the latest glibc, do you think? Do I need a separate library for pthreads, or does the glibc have a configure switch for compiling in a pthreads implementation? What I am trying to do is install a decent version of GCC (2.95.3 or later, but not 2.96), the latest glibc, the latest standard C++ from GNU, and java compiler + class libs, latest binutils, latest make/automake/autoconf, etc, and build a development environment with the new emacs 21.1, diffutils, patch, and so on. So what should I install first and are there any special steps I need to take to get it all done? Thanks heaps. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
