Re: What's the status coexistance between egcs and gcc packages?
On 19 Mar 1998, Rob Browning wrote:
> The changelog for egcc claims it's now the standard for Debian. Is
> that true? I'm asking because I need it here for other projects, and
> I want to know how that can/should interact with building my Debian
> packges.
>
> Is it OK to compile Debian packages with egcs now? Also if egcs is
> now the standard, then shouldn't it provide /usr/bin/gcc, or are we
> supposed to just stick calling cc? If the latter, then why does the
> egcs C++ package provide g++?
My impression is that gcc 2.7.2.3 is standard for normal C stuff, but
egcs/eg++ is standard for C++ due to the superior C++ handling. I would
like the egcs/g++ package to provide an eg++ symlink though :)
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