Re: update-alternatives and gcc

["Jeff Sheinberg" <jeff@bsrd.net>]

Chris Caldwell writes:
 > This has only become an issue with the recent gcc-3.3 packages
 > (i.e. kernel build fails), but I'm concerned that the gcc
 > packaging doesn't appear to follow the /etc/alternatives
 > standard. Currently (on an up-to-date Sid system),
 > /etc/alternatives/cc is a reference to /usr/bin/gcc which is
 > symlinked to /usr/bin/gcc-3.3. Would it not make more sense to
 > make the gcc versions directly visible to update-alternatives and
 > dispense with the symlink? I can work around this using makeflags
 > or changing the symlink, but this setup just doesn't seem to be
 > the "Debian Way".

I have gcc-{2.95,3.2,3.3} all installed, so here is another case
that does not use /etc/alternatives,

    $ ls -l /lib/cpp
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jun  1 14:10 /lib/cpp -> /usr/bin/cpp-3.3*

-- 
Jeff Sheinberg