Setting GCC 4.2 as the default compiler on Mac OS X Leopard

Question

I\'m sure there must be a way to do this. As you are probably aware the latest versions of Xcode (and in fact I think all versions of Xcode) on Leopard come with GCC 4.0.1 a

Answer 1

I might be wrong, but I thought that was what Xcode-select was for?

xcode-select --switch /path_to_tool_suite

As I said, I'm not 100% on this, but I believe it will set the default for all programs including Terminal and other apps that calls into the OS to use a compiler.