gcc-defaults

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

Matt Taggart writes:
 > Hi debian-gcc,
 > 
 > If I understand it correctly the gcc-defaults package allows the different 
 > architectures to specify different default versions of the various compiler 
 > bits and it gets all the dependencies right.

yes, that correct. the intention is to have only _one_ gcc, which
cannot be changed as an alternative. This makes it easier to identify
the compiler used (in bug reports)

 > Is this working?

at least for gcc-2.95 ;-)

 > I'm interested in making it work for hppa as we need to use gcc-3.0.

Please do. I can help / upload it this weekend.