GCC 4.5.0 (beta)

[Shining Arcanine]

I would like to install a copy of the latest pre-release version of GCC 4.5.0 on my EM64T Gentoo vmware virtual machine. I have been searching Google for how to do that for the past few days, but I have not been able to find much of an answer (aside from obscure references to gcc-porting).

Could someone point me in the correct direction?

[John R. Graham]

That obscure reference is talking about the GCC-Porting Overlay, however the experimental gcc ebuilds have moved to the Gentoo Toolchain Overlay. Your official hunting license is:

• Study the Gentoo Overlays: Users' Guide.
  
• Emerge layman.
  
• Use layman to add the toolchain overlay.
  
• Unmask the version of gcc that you want to play with. See Mixing Software Branches in the Handbook.
  
• Emerge that version.
  

It's as simple (hah!) as that.

- John
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