Bug#112887: gcc in alternatives?

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

tags 112887 + wontfix
thanks

Adrian von Bidder writes:
 > Package: gcc-3.0
 > Severity: wishlist
 > Version: 1:3.0.2-0pre010908
 > 
 > Hi!
 > 
 > I would be glad if gcc would install itself in the Debian alternatives
 > system. gcc-3.0 is quite stable, and I would like to test it by using it as
 > my standard compiler; as it does not set /usr/bin/gcc (and rightly so), I
 > thought it would be really nice to have alternatives.

gcc-3.0 doesn't use alternatives to make sure that the preferred
system compiler is used when calling 'gcc'. If you want to test
gcc-3.0 for a particular package,

- use CC=gcc-3.0 CXX=g++-3.0 when configuring/compiling a package

- make ~<user>/bin/gcc a symlink to gcc-3.0 and add it to your path