How to use multiple versions of GCC

Question

We have a new application that requires glibc 2.4 (from gcc 4.1). The machine we have runs on has gcc 3.4.6. We can not upgrade, and the application must be run on this ma

Answer 1

for Ubuntu it's pretty easy

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test

sudo apt-get update

and then install for example gcc version 6

sudo apt-get install gcc-6