Bug#221282: /usr/bin/gcc: sparc wrapper is annoying
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:43:14PM +0000, James Troup wrote:
> Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
>
> > Clint Adams writes:
> >> Package: gcc
> >> Version: 4:3.3.1-2
> >> File: /usr/bin/gcc
> >>
> >> Please make the sparc gcc wrapper optional for those of us who would
> >> prefer a symlink to gcc-3.3.
> >
> > why is it annoying? it just works.
>
> Not really. It, AIUI, blithely assumes 64-bit if running on a 64-bit
> machine with 64-bit libc-dev installed. This is a rather broken
> assumption given that only two out of the hundreds of library packages
> in Debian are 64-bit enabled.
That is going to increase. Not only that, but there is a way to disable
it.
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