Iznogoud writes: > >> >> Compile your own and they all do. >> > > This is what came to mind. That is what distro-makers do when they put one > together. It makes no sense to go away from a distribution that works well > for you overall just for having a specific development tool when there are > other ways to deal with it. I bit this bullet again now and built a very recent version of gcc7. It took over 8 hours on my Vizio laptop. If there's a way to get it to just build the C and C++ compilers, I'm not aware of it. It builds Fortran and some other compilers that I'm not interested in. Probably I should have used make -j2 or 3 when I ran make. It's been a few years since I've built anything that big. I've never done anything with Intel's C++ compiler. Mostly I use Clang, GCC, and a little bit of Microsoft. I used Arch for a year or more in the past, but wasn't able to stay on top of it. It reminds me of C++ in terms of giving you a lot of control. Thanks for the Slackware and Tumbleweed recommendations. I'll keep them in mind for the future. Brian Ebenezer Enterprises http://webEbenezer.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20170129/76638aa2/attachment.html>