egcs - how to know if it's there and what ver

[Claude Jones]

Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 13:02 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
> 
>>Subject says it all: I'm trying to install something from source and 
>>one of several top installation problems listed in the howto is:
>>egcs older than 2.91.66 (1.1.2)
>>other install requirements I've been able to determine, but I can't find 
>>any description of how to tell whether I have egcs, and if so what ver - 
>>a 'locate egcs' yielded up three cryptic log files
> 
> 
> egcs was a fork of the gcc compiler, and has since been remerged into
> gcc (or renamed to gcc, whatever). If you are running a Fedora release,
> you don't have (and don't need) egcs unless you did something special to
> install an old version. gcc should work for you.
> 
Thanks to this suggestion from another post,
"One methoid is to forget the mailman archives and go to:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list",
I was able to search the fedora-list archives on 'egcs' and get to a 
couple of wikipedia references that explained it just as you describe - 
thanks for responding.

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA