You could possibly recompile gcc 4.8.5 with the following script. However there is a lot that can go wrong depending on the machine that you are compiling it since the compiler itself depends on a large set of utilities - called the toolchain and they are tightly coupled with the machine's own system libraries, in particular the C standard library.
Copysudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib libstdc++6:i386
wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.8.5/gcc-4.8.5.tar.bz2 --no-check-certificate
tar xf gcc-4.8.5.tar.bz2
cd gcc-4.8.5
./contrib/download_prerequisites
cd ..
sed -i -e 's/__attribute__/\/\/__attribute__/g' gcc-4.8.5/gcc/cp/cfns.h
sed -i 's/struct ucontext/ucontext_t/g' gcc-4.8.5/libgcc/config/i386/linux-unwind.h
mkdir xgcc-4.8.5
pushd xgcc-4.8.5
$PWD/../gcc-4.8.5/configure --enable-languages=c,c++ --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --enable-plugin --program-suffix=-4.8.5
make MAKEINFO="makeinfo --force" -j
sudo make install -j
Answer from Henrique Bucher on Stack OverflowQuestion regarding gcc-c++ package
Errors when compiling using custom GCC location
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Open the terminal and type:
sudo apt install linux-libc-dev
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt install gcc-4.8
In your terminal type: sudo apt install gcc and enter. That should install the latest version of gcc.
If you want to install GCC 4.8 specifically, you may follow the post: How to install gcc-4.8.
As GCC 4.8 is available in the default repository on Ubuntu 18.04, then you can simply do
sudo apt-get install gcc-4.8
Or
type sudo apt-get install gcc-4 in terminal and press tab. If GCC 4.8 is available it will either auto-complete or show the available versions. If there are versions available other than 4.8 as well, add .8 after sudo apt-get install gcc-4 and press enter to install.
yum install centos-release-scl-rh
yum install devtoolset-3-gcc devtoolset-3-gcc-c++
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc-4.9 gcc-4.9 /opt/rh/devtoolset-3/root/usr/bin/gcc 10
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/g++-4.9 g++-4.9 /opt/rh/devtoolset-3/root/usr/bin/g++ 10
For installing the system compilers gcc, g++, the install command is # yum install gcc-c++ → Provides version 4.8.5 : /usr/bin/{ gcc, g++ }.
Other options: 1. gcc53-c++-5.3.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm → https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7S255p3kFXNRm9FVnZYUnhyZzg/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-1N6zQa6Sbl_WycG1O9I7JA : Download and install : # cd Downloads/ && yum install ./gcc53-c++-5.3.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm ..... Provides /usr/bin/{gcc53, g++53}.
- The devtoolset´s : https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-6/ →
# yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms
Install gcc, g++ version 4.9.2 : # yum install devtoolset-3-gcc-c++
Note : You can have as many gcc/g++ versions as you want, installed at the same time. ( The system compilers are a must.)
- gcc49-c++-4.9.3-1.el6.x86_64.rpm https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pwq1ua80dGM72i7rpDNAIIdfcR1WK-hG/view?usp=sharing → Provides
/usr/bin/{gcc49, g++49}.
gcc63-c++-6.3.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t4WrgvpEP-6_NN3qMJhz9MS3CJhHrHKc/view?usp=sharing → Provides
/usr/bin/{gcc63, g++63}.gcc45-c++-4.5.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm https://drive.google.com/file/d/15aRg-BPhuyaEyZA9Jy-iAyC21_pwN7nD/view?usp=sharing → Provides
/usr/bin/{gcc45, g++45, gfortran45}gcc42-c++-4.2.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eYWk6Nd63xeqqAUoJldNWRuwEGO6cAyv/view?usp=sharing → Provides
/usr/bin/{gcc42, g++42}
gcc73-c++-7.3.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PgwCP5tu8D0EJbJVTqJd7Vg8dJ4l4noi/view?usp=sharing → Provides
/usr/bin/{gcc73, g++73}gcc48-c++-4.8.5-1.el6.x86_64.rpm https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w6fW6oSflDDYZt_cOpGj3QMEmzUC8Q9L/view?usp=sharing → Provides
/usr/bin/{gcc48, g++48, gfortran48}gcc84-c++-8.4.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xgFtsiDi2uiB1B0AcOaSpxVizzET-pJf/view?usp=sharing → Provides
/usr/bin/{gcc84, g++84, gfortran84}
You need a C++ compiler to build GCC. On Ubuntu, the C++ compiler is in the package g++, separate from gcc (which is a C compiler, not a C++ compiler), so be sure to:
sudo apt-get install g++
first you should ensure a C++ compiler to build on your machine
yum install gcc-c++
Tru Huynh of centos.org has built the redhat developer toolset 1.1, for centos and it contains gcc 4.7.2
So you could simply use his repo and install just gcc, instantly.
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
wget http://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-1.1/devtools-1.1.repo
yum --enablerepo=testing-1.1-devtools-6 install devtoolset-1.1-gcc devtoolset-1.1-gcc-c++
This will install it most likely into /opt/centos/devtoolset-1.1/root/usr/bin/
Then you can tell your compile process to use the gcc 4.7 instead of 4.4 with the CC variable
export CC=/opt/centos/devtoolset-1.1/root/usr/bin/gcc
export CPP=/opt/centos/devtoolset-1.1/root/usr/bin/cpp
export CXX=/opt/centos/devtoolset-1.1/root/usr/bin/c++
Here is how to get devtoolset-2 (including gcc 4.8.1)
This was taken from http://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-2/readme
wget http://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-2/devtools-2.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/devtools-2.repo
yum install devtoolset-2-gcc devtoolset-2-binutils devtoolset-2-gcc-c++
Known issues:
- unsigned packages
- CentOS-6 devtoolset-2 needs devtoolset-2-ide which contains the whole Eclipse stack, but does not build yet
- CentOS-6 all the maven related file are not built either
Main changes from devtools-1.1:
/opt/centosis no longer used/opt/rhis now used as upstream (as SL version)