Bug#481403: closed: please reopen!
Alexis Huxley wrote:
> Hi Arthur,
>
> > It has been closed by Arthur Loiret <arthur.loiret@u-psud.fr> (reply to arthur.loiret@u-psud.fr).
>
> > /usr/bin/gcc symlink is provided by `gcc' package from `gcc-default' source
> > package, not by `gcc-4.2'.
>
> Fine, you are right, the package name might be wrong, but the bug exists.
> If I try to install 'gcc' (that should recreate the symlink, right?) then
> I get:
>
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> gcc-4.2
>
> I don't want or need gcc-4.2 therefore the bug exists!
>
> Could you possibly, if it is not too much trouble, reopen the bug and
> assign it to the package gcc rather than gcc-4.1, then? I presume you
> can do tha? Or would that be too much trouble? Thank you.
>
> Alexis
>
> PS Such a blase attitude towards bug reports does neither (a) you, nor
> (b) Debian any favours.
It is not a bug. The information you apparently miss is that /usr/bin/gcc
points to the system's default compiler, it is not user-definable for
reasons discussed in http://bugs.debian.org/112887 and a slew of
similiar bug reports.
Since you noticed the change of the default compiler I figure you are
using a development version of Debian like testing or unstable.
Thiemo
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