Using Homebrew with alternate GCC

Question

I\'ve installed gcc-4.6 using the homebrew-alternatives gcc formula, but I can\'t seem to get it to use that GCC to install other formulas. Specifi

Answer 1

These answers are all fairly old now. It seems that recent versions of homebrew have a '--cc' option that enables you to select the c compiler to use. For example

brew install --cc=gcc-6 

will install using the brew version of gcc