It has been long after releasing the GNU GCC 8.x, but at last, there is a trusted repository, which has offered us packages for GNU GCC 8.x, which won’t break your system! Many of us prefer CentOS 7 because it offers free enterprise-class operating system and as mentioned in our article before – How to install new gcc and development tools under CentOS 7 there are a couple of approved external repositories for CentOS, which you can trust https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories. In one of them Software Collection – https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/ several months ago the GNU GCC 8.x packages were added!
At present, the GNU GCC version is gcc (GCC) 8.3.1 20190311 (Red Hat 8.3.1-3).
Here are the steps how you can install GNU GCC 8 and how you can use it:
STEP 1) Update your system and install the repository in your system
The commands:
yum update -y yum -y install centos-release-scl