The AMD GCC rpms provide newer GCC compilers on Red Hat RHEL4 and SUSE SLES 9 systems than is provided by the native compiler on the system.

Note: SLES 10 provides a newer compiler so in general you will not need these rpms on that system. This release provides the 4.1.2 version of GCC compiler and 070220 of the binary utilities (linker, assembler). The compiler binaries are stored under the directory /opt/amd/gnutools-4.1.2. The binary utilities are are stored under the directory /opt/amd/binutils-amd -< os > -070220 with a symlink /opt/amd/binutils to point to the binary utilities the compiler will use ( <os> is either rhel4 or sles9 ). To use them, add /opt/amd/gnutools-4.1.2/bin and /opt/amd/binutils to your path ahead of /usr/bin , or execute the commands with a full pathname, such as /opt/amd/gnutools-4.1.2/bin/gcc. At the very least, you need to install the base compiler, libgcc, and binutils packages.