I've confirmed that you can upgrade gcc from the default version 4.8 on centOS 7.
First, we need to install "Software Collections" in order to access some of the community packages including gcc v7
sudo yum install -y centos-release-scl
Next, we want to install a developer toolset. Depending on your needs, you may want a different devtoolset. Here I'm targeting 7:
sudo yum install -y devtoolset-7
Finally, you'll want to change over to gcc 7 as your default, launch a new shell session with the scl tool:
scl enable devtoolset-7 bash
Enable the software collection in the answer is only effective in the current shell.
The scl utility will create a "child-shell" that set the PATH variables properly, so that in the new child-shell, the enabled software collections will be firstly searched.
These settings obviously only take effective temporarily in the current shell.
To make it permanently effective, add the command, source /opt/rh/devtoolset-7/enable to the user's profile (~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc for RHEL based OS, like CentOS 7).
Then, start a new shell and you will have the right tools available.
After execute
scl enable devtoolset-7 bash, you will need to executeexittwice to exit the opened shell window, which verifies that thesclcommand created a new shell instance as a child process. There might be side-effect with creating a child-shell, so do not put this command in the~/.bashrcprofile, otherwise it will repeatedly create child-shell (non-login shell) as each shell will load the profile, resulting in a endless recursive loop. Put it in~/.bash_profile, it will be loaded for only once (for the login shell), but you will need to exit twice every time.
But for development purpose, scl enable devtoolset-7 bash would be preferred, as you can exit the created child-shell, and then switch between different versions of the same software.
More details about the GCC version in python terminal:
The version info of the built-in Python in CentOS 7:
[root@conda condabuilder]# python Python 2.7.5 (default, Nov 16 2020, 22:23:17) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.The version info of the user installed (via
conda) Python on a system even without higher version of GCC installed:[root@conda condabuilder]# conda activate jupyter (jupyter) [root@conda condabuilder]# python -VV Python 3.10.9 | packaged by conda-forge | (main, Feb 2 2023, 20:20:04) [GCC 11.3.0]
From the results, we can see that the GCC version contained in Python's version info is not related to the system's GCC. The system's default Python (2.7.5) should have been compiled with the GCC version distributed with CentOS 7, so the version info show the same GCC version. But for user installed python, the GCC version info actually depends on what version of GCC is used for building and packging the python binary.
Edit: What happened? When I went to download centos I mistakenly understood centos 7 as being the most recent stable version. Original post below:
Ok, I have only used the mint distro as of yet (for about a year now). I wanted to start getting to know other distros so I repaired an older funky pc's power supply and changed out the windows 7 on it for Centos with Gnome desktop just yesterday. So Centos is new to me and mint has been my experience (but I am still a novice with it).
I checked out the GCC and it's version 4.8.5 . On my mint laptop I was able to install version 10.3.0 through the apt package manager. The search results I get from using yum though do not seem to spit out anything similar as far as I can tell. And the google searches I do seem to all point towards installing from source.
But a friend of mine the other day when discussing how I used my laptop in mint was very emphatic that I should avoid as much as possible installing anything from source that was available already through a package manager, saying that when things later become updated it is much safer and less of a mess to have the package manager handle the changes.
So my noob question is this... Does that type of thinking not apply to the Centos distro? Or is the purpose of Centos less intended for developers? Or something else?
In the end I am too ignorant in this current situation to really know what I am ignorant of so bottom line question is:
In Centos 7 What is the most recommended way to upgrade GCC?
Thanks
FROM centos:centos7
RUN yum update -y
RUN yum groupinstall "Development Tools" -y
RUN yum install wget -y
RUN curl -O https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-7.3.0/gcc-7.3.0.tar.gz
RUN tar xzf gcc-7.3.0.tar.gz
RUN cd gcc-7.3.0
RUN ./contrib/download_prerequisites
RUN cd ..
RUN mkdir gcc-build
RUN cd gcc-build
RUN ../gcc-7.3.0/configure \
--enable-shared \
--enable-threads=posix \
--enable-__cxa_atexit \
--enable-clocale=gnu \
--disable-multilib \
--enable-languages=all
RUN make
# (Go make a cup of ice tea :)
RUN make install
To save the build time you can create a new docker from the running docker using "docker commit" or save /usr/local to a tar file and open it on any other fresh centos7 docker.
Following commands in Dockerfile worked for me:
RUN yum install -y centos-release-scl
RUN yum install -y devtoolset-7-gcc-*
RUN echo "source scl_source enable devtoolset-7" >> /etc/bashrc
RUN source /etc/bashrc