MacOS Homebrew – How to Downgrade GCC Version

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How do I downgrade my GCC v5 to GCC version 4.7 ? I currently don't have Xcode installed and I am using the command line tool.

More details : 

Apple LLVM version 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.29)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin15.4.0
Thread model: posix

OS X Version : 10.11.4

Best Answer

To install GCC 4.7 from Homebrew:

$ brew tap homebrew/homebrew-versions
$ brew install gcc47

which will install it as gcc-47. If you want to install as gcc instead:

$ ln -s /usr/local/bin/gcc-47 /usr/local/bin/gcc
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