[Mingw-users] [xSPAM] Re: Running two versions of gcc on same machine

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting John Brown <joh...@ho...>:

> Hello
> I have Mingw (gcc-3.4.2) installed in c:\mingw. I have MSYS installed as
> well. I wanted to try the gcc 4.1 at
> http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer/misc/gcc-mingw32-4.1.1.tar.gz. I did the
> following:
>
> I renamed my existing c:\mingw as c:\mingw3 and installed the mingw-4.1 in
> c:\mingw4.
> I created etc\fstab3 and etc\fstab4 with c:\mingw3 and c:\mingw4 mounted on
> \mingw. I copied msys.bat end edited each copy to overwrite etc\fstab
> appropriately before starting the MSYS shell.
>

You've made this way too difficult.

I would have put gcc4 in c:\gcc4.  Then when I wanted to use that 
version of gcc I would ``export PATH=/c/gcc4/bin:$PATH && hash -r''.

HTH,
Earnie Boyd
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