Setting up an environment for a Binary snapshot of gcc

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Andrew,

On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 at 17:19, Andrew C Aitchison <ubuntu at aitchison.me.uk>
wrote:

> .bashrc is one way to do it, but I suggest that you
> explore the "environment-modules" package.
>

Thank you. I've made a note of that.

I intend to work my way through PPP3 ("Programming Principles and Practice
Using C++" chapter by chapter.

I've already diverted to reading the GNU Make documentation as well as  the
main bit of "Managing Projects with GNU Make" and am trying to avoid more
diversions.

I've shifted my PATH= code out of .bashrc and now have a shell script,
prepare-for-gcc-latest, that I invoke via source:
#!/bin/bash
if ! echo $PATH | grep gcc-latest/bin: - ; then
    echo gcc-latest not on path... putting it on
    set -x
    PATH=/opt/gcc-latest/bin:$PATH
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gcc-latest/lib64
    cd gcc-new
    set +x
else
    echo gcc-latest already on path
fi

BW,


Ian

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