Re: gcc

[Francesco Pietra <frapietra@alice.it>]

Hi Matthew:
Thank you. However:

$alias gcc="gcc-4.1" make
-bash: alias: make: not found

$man alias
No manual entry for alias

I am making a cup of doubly strong green tea

francesco pietra

On Tuesday 06 June 2006 18:20, Matthew Robinson wrote:
> Francesco Pietra wrote:
> > Hi Joe:
> > Thank you. Because gcc is called by $make, I tried to install gcc:
> >
> > #apt-get install gcc
> > gcc: Depends: gcc-4.0 (>=4.0.2-5) but is not installable
> > E: Broken packages.
> >
> > francesco pietra
> >
> > On Tuesday 06 June 2006 17:45, Jo Shields wrote:
> >> Francesco Pietra wrote:
> >>> Hi Len:
> >>> perhaps better for me to go for a jogging, or make a cup of strong
> >>> green tea, because I am getting really confused:
> >>>
> >>> #dselect
> >>> shows that both gcc-4.1 and make are installed (blank*** with the last
> >>> * highlighted, as for packages that work, like apt)
> >>>
> >>> In contrast (?)
> >>> #dpkg -S /usr/bin/gcc
> >>> dpkg: /usr/bin/gcc not found
> >>>
> >>> but see below from a perusal of directories
> >>>
> >>> Installation was in differet partitions and raid1: /, /usr, /var/
> >>> swap, /home, /tmp
> >>>
> >>> /usr/bin includes, inter alia, g++-4.1, gcc-4.1, gccbug-4.1
> >>>
> >>> Previously I was trying to compile a program that has Makefile only:
> >>> $make
> >>> gcc -g -02 -c -o active.o active.c
> >>> make: *** [active.o] Error 127
> >>>
> >>> thank you
> >>> francesco pietra
> >>>
> >>> On Tuesday 06 June 2006 17:00, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 02:57:53PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> >>>>> Why with amd64 debian etch
> >>>>>
> >>>>> $gcc -v
> >>>>> $gcc --version
> >>>>> are unrecognized and there is no
> >>>>> $man gcc
> >>>>> page?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> While
> >>>>> #dselect
> >>>>> reveals that both
> >>>>> gcc-4.1 and make
> >>>>> are installed from base installation.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Of course my question is not merely related to that, but to the use
> >>>>> of queries with respect to 32bit etch.
> >>>>
> >>>> Is gcc installed?  gcc-4.1 provides gcc-4.1, gcc depends on the
> >>>> current gcc, and provides the gcc link to the current version.
> >>>>
> >>>> # dpkg -S /usr/bin/gcc
> >>>> gcc: /usr/bin/gcc
> >>>>
> >>>> Len Sorensen
> >>
> >> "gcc" is a symbolic link, provided by the "gcc" package. Since you don't
> >> have the "gcc" package, you have no "gcc".
> >>
> >> Either compile your app using "gcc-4.1" instead of "gcc", or install the
> >> "gcc" package.
>
> How about alias:
>
> alias gcc="gcc-4.1" make
>
> or a symlink:
>
> ln -s `which gcc-4.1` /usr/local/bin/gcc