Re: gcc or cc?
On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 16:25:09 +0100, Anders Hammarquist wrote:
> > I think we have two goals here:
> > - Make the developers use gcc for building C code in packages. [*]
>
> This is IMHO not a good idea. On the alpha architecture, gcc (at least
> 2.7.2.x) is broken, and all Debian packages in the alpha dist are compiled
> with egcs.
Erm. /usr/bin/gcc _is_ egcs gcc on Alpha, unless I'm mistaken.
> Being able to change compilers is a good idea. Mandating that cc be a
> symlink to gcc is not.
Perhaps "mandating that cc on machines used to build packages is a symlink
to the primary C compiler for the architecture the machine runs" come closer
to what we're trying to suggest.
Ray
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