Re: Way to switch easily (Was: Re: Egcs, gcc, and Debian)
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On Tue 19 Aug 1997, Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com> wrote:
>
> > Imagine something as big as XFree looking for gcc and finding the link
> > to egcc. It hapyly thinks that it has gcc and uses options egcc doesn't
>
> hehe. Imagine something as big as XFree actually using configure. :-)
>
> (XFree uses Imake, always has, and though I've actually written some
> stuff on how to convert all of X over to autoconf, I don't expect it
> to ever happen... thus, the only one "finding" the link is the human
> who frobs with the config files.)
>
> Seriously, I think installing egcs as egcs (or egcc, whatever) makes
> sense, and if you have a Makefile that uses naked 'cc', well, *it's
> wrong*, but you've got a Makefile, so you can *fix* it. It's a few
> seconds with an editor...
Only if ya know how to do a globabl search and replace. I would say most
people don't in the normal text editors they use for editing makefiles, such
as vi.
shaya
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