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.