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Bug#883853: marked as done (Please provide binaries/symlinks without version suffix)

Your message dated Fri, 08 Mar 2019 03:28:08 +0000
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Source: gcc-7-cross

(this applies to gcc-*-cross, I was unsure where to file it)

Currently all the binaries of all -cross packages have a version suffix.

For gcc it looks like this:
gcc-7-aarch64-linux-gnu: /usr/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc-7
gcc-5-aarch64-linux-gnu: /usr/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc-5

gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu then provides symlinks to the current default version:
/usr/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc -> aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc-7
Now, most build environments provide a way to set a prefix for the toolchain to use. Like the kernel: 
CROSS_COMPILE=/usr/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu- make something
That works fine for debian's default gcc version, but doesn't when you want to use another version. While some build environments allow a way to set a suffix too, they generally do not. Setting just a prefix seems like the established way.
A dedicated directory with binaries/symlinks without version suffix would fix this, like: 
CROSS_COMPILE=/usr/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-5/aarch64-linux-gnu-

Please consider providing it!

Thanks,
Andre

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Version: 30+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package gcc-7-cross has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/923982

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
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