Bug#481403: gcc-4.1 creates no gcc symlink, gcc-4.2 does
Package: gcc-4.1
Version: 4.1.2-19
Severity: normal
gcc-4.2 gets installed with the current 'testing' by default, but it is
not the compiler used to compile the latest 2.6 series kernel package.
Therefore gcc-4.2 is no good for compiling other modules from source
(e.g. VMware modules, uvc-video, etc ...). Therefore gcc-4.1 needs
to be installed. And it is not unreasonable to deinstall gcc-4.2 at
the same time.
None of the above-specified kernel modules' Makefiles can find gcc
when it is called /usr/bin/gcc-4.1. It does not seem unreasonable
that Makefile writes can rely on /usr/bin/gcc or /usr/bin/cc existing.
If gcc-4.2 can create a gcc symlink then so should gcc-4.1 (obviously
subject to being the only version of gcc installed).
Clearly this is an issue that will go away as gcc-4.2 becomes the
compiler used to compile distributed kernel packages, but so long as
kernel packages are being distributed built with gcc-4.1 then this
missing symlink is a problem.
That the user has to type:
cd /usr/bin
ln -s gcc-4.1 gcc
should clearly not be a prerequisite to build a kernel module.
Alexis
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gcc-4.1 depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-4 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii cpp-4.1 4.1.2-19 The GNU C preprocessor
ii gcc-4.1-base 4.1.2-19 The GNU Compiler Collection (base
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-3 GCC support library
Versions of packages gcc-4.1 recommends:
ii libc6-dev 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Development Librari
ii libmudflap0-dev 4.1.2-19 GCC mudflap support libraries (dev
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