Re: Way to switch easily (Was: Re: Egcs, gcc, and Debian)
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On Tue 19 Aug 1997, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote:
>
> > Shaya Potter wrote:
> >
> > It may not be that simple. egcc accepts new options which don't exist
> > on gcc, and in the future may lose options which gcc needs. For now you
> > can use "gcc -b i486-pc-linux-gnu" to run egcs via the normal gcc
> > frontend (minus a few new options), but that may not be true next week.
> >
> > I've decided emilio has the best idea. If I've got to use
> > update-alternatives, I'll use it on cc and c++. gcc will always be gcc,
> > egcc will be egcs until it becomes the standard gcc package.
>
> Only trouble is that alot (all?) configure scripts look for GCC as gcc,
> not cc. I don't think I've even seen a package that calls cc and not gcc
> if gcc is installed.
>
> That alone probably isn't worth the trouble to worry about however!
Except, that we could make the shell script called gcc, and have it call gcc
or egcs or whatever.
Shaya
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