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whwright
whwright

Reputation: 561

Issue linking gcc-4.7 Mac OSX 10.6

So I downloaded gcc using homebrew so that I could update gcc and g++ to 4.7.

So then I:

$ mkdir ~/bin

created ~/.bashrc with contents:

'export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH'

created ~/.bash_profile with contents:

'. $HOME/.bashrc'

and then:

$ ln -s /usr/local/bin/g++-4.7 ~/bin/g++

so now I run g++ -v and it's 4.7, YAY!

Now I go to update gcc and do:

$ ln -s /usr/local/bin/gcc-4.7 ~/bin/gcc

I get no errors but then when I run gcc -v i get:

gcc-4.7: error trying to exec '/usr/local/bin/i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1': execvp: No such file or directory

So it seems to be looking for 4.2 for some reason? If I cd to ~/bin/gcc and do ./gcc -v it works fine. Also echo $PATH has the correct ~/bin path. I'm not sure why g++ worked and gcc didnt.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 794

Answers (1)

Diego Peinado Martin
Diego Peinado Martin

Reputation: 41

I had the same problem. This is because bash has hashed the gcc in other folder.

run: hash gcc

Then everything should go smooth.

Upvotes: 4

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