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  • A chroot is exactly what Debian developers use in this circumstance. Debian comes with several tools to make this very easy. Commented Mar 2, 2012 at 0:48
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    Here is a patch for backporting 4.7 to stable. It isn't what you were asking, but will give you an idea what is involved. See Get newest gcc for debian Commented May 26, 2012 at 3:42