upgrade gcc on fedora core 4

[JD]

we were doing embedded linux development.
On 09/09/2010 10:43 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:32 PM, JD<jd1008 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Why not upgrade the whole installation to F13, or better yet, on Nov 2nd,
>> of this year F14 will be released! Upgrade to F14 and then do yum update
>> to get the latest compilers.
> Although the OP didn't say one way or the other, the fact they are
> still running a FC4 machine would tend to indicate they don't want to
> upgrade frequently. With the ~6 month release cycle of Fedora I still
> think it would be better to move to another distribution. i.e. RHEL,
> CentOS, Ubuntu LTS, etc.
>
> Richard
Well, I did gather that they do not want to upgrade - possibly due to
some thrd party dependency.
Perhaps they can do what another op suggested - install
any version compiler in a separate dir. But even there, they
will need a complete chroot environment. I had to do it at one
place of employment where we were doing embedded linux
development. Every time we needed to upgrade GCC, we compiled
it within the chroot env of the target OS, and then deployed it as
part of the cross-compiler tools set that was used on different
linux platforms.