Edit •28 Oct 2012 •on Raspberry Pi OpenELEC Raspbmc XBian XMBC

Set the default gcc version on a Raspberry Pi

My first experience with my Raspberry Pi was to compile some stuff. I needed an older gcc version than was pre-installed on wheezy. Installation wasn’t the problem, the problem was to use the right gcc version. After searching the web I found a helper script created by Jeff Carr-3.

Script

#!/bin/bash 

usage() { 
        echo 
        echo Sets the default version of gcc, g++, etc 
        echo Usage: 
        echo 
        echo "    gcc-set-default-version <VERSION>" 
        echo 
        exit 
} 

cd /usr/bin 

if [ -z $1 ] ; then 
        usage; 
fi 

set_default() { 
        if [ -e "$1-$2" ] ; then 
                echo $1-$2 is now the default 
                ln -sf $1-$2 $1 
        else 
                echo $1-$2 is not installed 
        fi 
} 

for i in gcc cpp g++ gcov gccbug ; do 
        set_default $i $1 
done

Usage

sudo sh gcc-set-default-version 4.7