Bug#289045: marked as done (gcc-3.3: gcc packages do not use the alternative system)
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From: Attila Kinali <attila@kinali.ch>
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Subject: gcc-3.3: gcc packages do not use the alternative system
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Package: gcc-3.3
Version: 1:3.3.5-5
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
It is possible to have various versions of gcc&co installed,
though none of the packages use the alternative system but
a couple of unrelated symlinks in /usr/bin.
Thus, these symlinks get overwritten on every update.
eg i have gcc-3.3 and gcc-3.4 installed currently,
with 3.4 as default. With the last update of gcc-3.3
all my symlinks got overwriten.
This should be denfintily fixed and done the correct way.
Attila Kinali
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-swsusp.2.1.5
Locale: LANG=de_CH, LC_CTYPE=de_CH (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages gcc-3.3 depends on:
ii binutils 2.15-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii cpp-3.3 1:3.3.5-5 The GNU C preprocessor
ii gcc-3.3-base 1:3.3.5-5 The GNU Compiler Collection (base
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library
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From: Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 17:01:04 +0100
To: Attila Kinali <attila@kinali.ch>, 289045-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#289045: gcc-3.3: gcc packages do not use the alternative system
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Attila Kinali writes:
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:15:38 +0100
> Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>
> > Attila Kinali wrote:
> > > On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 09:56:04 +0100
> > > "Falk Hueffner" <falk@debian.org> wrote:
> > > > ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-3.4 /usr/local/bin/gcc
> > >
> > > LOL, this is a joke ? Right ?
> >
> > No.
>
> I still consider it to be one.
>
> > > Look, i don't mind if you say that the symlinks belong to the package
> > > managment. I don't mind if you say i'm not supposed to touch them
> > > by hand. But there is a default which version of gcc should be used.
> > > And if there is a default there should be a way to change _this_
> > > default _with_out_ using a workaround.
> >
> > Read e.g. http://bugs.debian.org/119952 for an answer.
>
> I've read it and there is nothing that adresses any of my
> argument. It just states that it doesn't fit into your
> way of doing things.
>
> Breaking things isnt an issue, because
> 1) There are only 2 things that can break: C++ programs
> and kernel modules.
No. See the upstream release notes for all releases and search for
"ABI incompatibilities".
> 2) They can only break when compiling new programs/modules
>
> Though I'm compiling a lot of c++ programs with different
> gcc versions linking against the debian packages none of them
> broke.
> But when using a different compiler to compile modules than the
> kernel was compiled with, things will definitly break.
>
> 3) I as an admin, want to be able to set the default compiler,
> no matter what my distro was compiled with and i don't want to
> mess with PATH because it doesn't fit into your way of doing things.
> I want to be able to compile the kernel with that, compile my
> modules, my programs, everything with _my_ default (again w/o
> workarounding your "way of doing things")
if you insist to shoot yourself, use dpkg-divert.
closing the report.
Matthias
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