Rob Soukoreff: "gcc questions" (Jan 16, 16:35):
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> I am unable to compile with gcc, (on Linux 0.12, 2meg ram, 386-sx, AMI bios).

Ok, this comes up every once in a while, and I agree a FAQ would be a
good idea. We had one, but it got out-of-date even before it was ready:
linux has evolved rather quickly. Just as a pointer, there are
linux-activists mail collected at tsx-11 (or was some time ago), and
people new on the list might want to know what the problems of
yesterweek have been.

Gcc can install in several directories, but the following is what I use:

from gccbin.tar:

/usr/local/bin - gcc
/usr/local/lib - all the other stuff

/usr/local/bin needs to be in the path (as an aside: bash-1.11 has a bug
which results in an abort() if your path ends in a colon, and you try to
execute something that doesn't exists: eg xyzzy). 

include.tar.Z should untar to the /usr/include -directory tree if you
untar it in the root directory. Check with "tar tf include.tar".

lib.tar.Z doesn't need to go in any special place: I have a source tree
under /usr/src, and I put it under that. You don't need this file unless
you want to recompile the library.

Additionally, I've linked (use symbolic links if you wish, testing out
new features) gcc to just 'cc', as that means I sometimes don't have to
change the makefiles at all.  Likewise, gcc-ld, gcc-as, gcc-ar can with
success be linked to the files 'gld', 'gas' and 'gar', somewhere on the
path.  I have all the /usr/local/lib/gcc-XX files linked both to
/usr/local/bin/XX and /usr/local/bin/gXX.

		Linus