Bug#840694: marked as done (gcc: /usr/bin/gcc should use /etc/alternatives)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #840694,
regarding gcc: /usr/bin/gcc should use /etc/alternatives
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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: gcc: /usr/bin/gcc should use /etc/alternatives
- From: Peter Chubb <peter.chubb@data61.csiro.au>
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 09:45:03 +1100
- Message-id: <147639870333.32040.16713237696839017757.reportbug@Diprotodon>
Package: gcc
Version: 4:6.1.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
I currently have gcc versions 4.7, 5.0 and 6.0 installed. I'd
like to be able to switch between them on a regular basis. The
simplest way to do this would be to use update-alternatives to
switch, but currently /usr/bin/gcc and its friends
are direct symlinks to /usr/bin/gcc-6
By `friends' I mean cpp, c++, c89 c99 gcc-ar gcc-ranlib gcc-nm etc.
The same goes for the various cross compilers (arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc etc)
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Control: tags -1 + wontfix
On 14.10.2016 00:45, Peter Chubb wrote:
> Package: gcc
> Version: 4:6.1.1-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I currently have gcc versions 4.7, 5.0 and 6.0 installed. I'd
> like to be able to switch between them on a regular basis. The
> simplest way to do this would be to use update-alternatives to
> switch, but currently /usr/bin/gcc and its friends
> are direct symlinks to /usr/bin/gcc-6
>
> By `friends' I mean cpp, c++, c89 c99 gcc-ar gcc-ranlib gcc-nm etc.
>
> The same goes for the various cross compilers (arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc etc)
no it should not. different GCC versions can offer different ABI versions, use
the versioned names to select a specific version. "Simple" isn't correct here.
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