C++: First steps on Fedora

Install compiler, autoconf and automake tools:

$ sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ autoconf automake

autoconf - a tool for producing configure scripts for building, installing and packaging software on computer systems where a Bourne shell is available [1];

automake - a programming tool that produces portable makefiles for use by the make program, used in compiling software [2];

GNU GCC C compiler (gcc)  - the package contains a GNU Compiler Collection;

GNU GCC C++ compiler (gcc-c++) - the package adds C++ support to the GNU Compiler Collection [3].

$ man g++

gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler

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When you invoke GCC, it normally does preprocessing, compilation, assembly and linking. The "overall options" allow you to stop this process at an intermediate stage.  For example, the -c option says not to run the linker.  Then the output consists of object files output by the assembler.

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