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List:       cygwin
Subject:    Re: How to install gcc and g++ 6 on cygwin which are not on the setup.exe
From:       Jose Isaias Cabrera <jicman () outlook ! com>
Date:       2019-05-20 14:56:31
Message-ID: DB7PR01MB5386B2F7AB85512755924FC2DE060 () DB7PR01MB5386 ! eurprd01 ! prod ! exchangelabs ! com
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Csaba Raduly, on Sunday, May 19, 2019 04:37 AM, wrote...
> On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 4:57 AM Jack  wrote:
> > 
> > On 5/18/19 9:24 PM, Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote:
> > > How do I uninstall the installation that I created with the building of gcc6? I \
> > > did a search on duckduckgo for, 
> > > cygwin how to uninstall gcc after building it
> > > 
> > > and found nothing that could help me.  Right now I have two installs of gcc: \
> > > v7.4.and v6.4.0.
> 
> That is not necessarily a problem. "Hand-built" GCC usually gets
> installed into /usr/local (so g++-6 is /usr/local/bin/g++), whereas
> the built-in GCC is installed into /usr (so the default GCC 7.4 is
> /usr/bin/g++). Unfortunately, whether one or the other is picked
> depends on your PATH.
> 
> I tend to configure my hand-built GCC with --program-suffix= (e.g. GCC
> 6 with --program-suffix=-6, so the name of the compiler ends up being
> g++-6).
Good to know for the next one. :-(  I should have used this on my run of configure. \
It would have matched what Bedrockdb make was calling.

> Unfortunately, gcc doesn't support "make uninstall". A workaround is
> to make a fake install with "make install DESTDIR=/tmp/usr/local" and
> then make a list of all the files under that directory, remove the
> "/tmp" and delete the files based on the list, something like

I started from scratch. I had a nice cygwin setup with Xfce, which I have to go back \
and set it back up.  But, that's easier because I know what I am doing here. ;-)  \
Thanks for all your help.

josé

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