Re: [Freemint-discuss] Installing different cross-compiler versions

[Thorsten O. <ad...@th...>]

On Freitag, 25. Mai 2018 09:16:49 CEST David Gálvez wrote:
> Is there a clean way to install different cross-compiler versions?
> 
> I use version 4.8.4 under Linux Mint, but I'd like to try newer
> versions without loosing my current setup.
> 

I have it installed like this:

lrwxrwxrwx /usr/bin/m68k-atari-mint-gcc -> m68k-atari-mint-gcc-4.6.4
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/bin/m68k-atari-mint-gcc-4.6.4
lrwxrwxrwx /usr/bin/m68k-atari-mint-gcc-7 -> m68k-atari-mint-gcc-7.3.1
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/bin/m68k-atari-mint-gcc-7.3.1
lrwxrwxrwx /usr/bin/m68k-atari-mint-gcc-8 -> m68k-atari-mint-gcc-8.1.0
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/bin/m68k-atari-mint-gcc-8.1.0

Similar for the g++ compiler drivers. So by default, gcc-4.6.4 is used, 
because that is what most people still have installed, and i want it to use 
for emutos and freemint. When i want to test another version, i just do

make CC=m68k-atari-mint-gcc-7 CXX=m68k-atari-mint-g++-7

or

CC=m68k-atari-mint-gcc-7 CXX=m68k-atari-mint-g++-7 ./configure

if the project is autoconf based.

The binutils (as, ld etc) are the same for all compilers, from the 2.30 
release.