Installing Developer Toolset on RHEL-based Distributions

Comes in handy when you need newer versions of developer tools such as GCC, GDB, Valgrind, etc.

Hidden Perk

Executables built with the Red Hat Developer Toolset toolchain can then also be deployed and run on multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux; on the other hand, executables built with self-compiled GCC often require another copy of runtime libraries to run due to GLIBC/GLIBCXX ABI incompatibility, leaves deployment complicated even for systems with identical OS version.

Install Software Collections

In order to install Developer Toolset, Software Collections must be installed first.

RHEL 7

yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms

1	yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms

RHEL 6

yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-6-rpms

1	yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-6-rpms

CentOS

yum install centos-release-scl

1	yum install centos-release-scl

Scientific Linux 7

yum install yum-conf-repos
yum install yum-conf-softwarecollections

1 2	yum install yum-conf-repos yum install yum-conf-softwarecollections

Scientific Linux 6

yum install "http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6/external_products/softwarecollections/yum-conf-softwarecollections-2.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm"

1	yum install "http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6/external_products/softwarecollections/yum-conf-softwarecollections-2.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm"

Install Developer Toolset

Install the version(s) of your choice. Yes, they can co-exist.

Developer Toolset 8 (GCC 8, etc.)

yum install devtoolset-8

1	yum install devtoolset-8

Developer Toolset 7 (GCC 7, etc.)

yum install devtoolset-7

1	yum install devtoolset-7

Developer Toolset 6 (GCC 6, etc.)

yum install devtoolset-6

1	yum install devtoolset-6

Developer Toolset 4 (GCC 5, etc.)

yum install devtoolset-4

1	yum install devtoolset-4

Developer Toolset 3 (GCC 4, etc.)

yum install devtoolset-3

1	yum install devtoolset-3

Use Installed Developer Toolset

Say you want to use Developer Toolset 8, you can run

scl enable devtoolset-8 bash

1	scl enable devtoolset-8 bash

to invoke a BASH shell with environment variables setup to run Developer Toolset 8, check it yourself with

gcc --version

1	gcc --version

References

5 Comments for “Installing Developer Toolset on RHEL-based Distributions”

Steve

says:

Kuan-Yi,
Thank you for this web page–it was invaluable to getting Tensorflow 1.0 working on a Centoas 6 system.
I think that the URL for the yum-conf repo needs to be updated to:
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6/external_products/softwarecollections/x86_64/yum-conf-softwarecollections-2.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm
The version 1.0.1 failed for me.

Kuan-Yi Li

Thanks for the information! I’ve updated the post.

Lee

This is a killer page. Thank you so much, I was about to compile myself. I don’t mind doing that always, but was not in the mood today. Also I manage a whole cluster so 3 lines to replace ~300 lines of scripting is very nice! Thank you.

Glad it saved you some time. 😉

Epo

Thanks , it worked for me for ScientificLinux 7