Bug#612716: gcc-4.4: please provide alternatives
Package: gcc-4.4
Version: 4.4.5-10
Severity: minor
I believe that the gcc symlink should be provided as an alternative and hence
handled with the update-alternatives tool, to decide which compiler should be
the default, without forcing the newest one to be automatically the default.
I suppose it should be fairly easy to modify the package to provide such
option.
Regards
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.35.8-venere (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gcc-4.4 depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.1-16 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii cpp-4.4 4.4.5-10 The GNU C preprocessor
ii gcc-4.4-base 4.4.5-10 The GNU Compiler Collection (base
ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-10 GCC support library
ii libgomp1 4.4.5-10 GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library
Versions of packages gcc-4.4 recommends:
ii libc6-dev 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Developmen
Versions of packages gcc-4.4 suggests:
pn gcc-4.4-doc <none> (no description available)
pn gcc-4.4-locales <none> (no description available)
pn gcc-4.4-multilib <none> (no description available)
pn libcloog-ppl0 <none> (no description available)
pn libgcc1-dbg <none> (no description available)
pn libgomp1-dbg <none> (no description available)
pn libmudflap0-4.4-dev <none> (no description available)
pn libmudflap0-dbg <none> (no description available)
pn libppl-c2 <none> (no description available)
pn libppl7 <none> (no description available)
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