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Re: experimental gcc-2.95.3 and gcc-2.97 (20001224)



Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
 > On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 10:44:09AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
 > > Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
 > >  > On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 06:18:33AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
 > >  > > Currently the gcc-2.95.2 package has binaries {c89,gcc,gcov}{,-2.95}.
 > >  > > g++-2.95.2 has binaries g++-2.95 and g++. gcc-2.97 has the gcc-2.97
 > >  > > binary and g++-2.97 the g++-2.97 binary. Both gcc-2.9x and g++-2.9x
 > >  > > packages provide an alternative cc/c++. By using gcc/g++ you get the
 > >  > > default compiler per architecture.
 > >  > 
 > >  > So cc can be the one or the other, but gcc will be fixed by
 > >  > architecture?  That doesn't seem to make sense.  A lot of packages just
 > >  > use cc to build.
 > > 
 > > Agreed. Then only the default-gcc-for-arch package provides the
 > > alternative cc/c++. Or can we drop the handling of cc/c++ by
 > > alternatives? For f77 that's not a solution, because f2c is the
 > > preferred f77 on some platforms. pc is provided by free-pascal as
 > > well. java isn't yet in the game.
 > 
 > I'm all for having the default-gcc-for-arch package do it.
 > 
 > Are we calling that package "gcc"?  I would hope so - keep dependencies
 > simple.

Source package gcc-defaults, binary-arch packages cpp, gcc, g++ and maybe
g77, gcj and gpc. For gcc: gcc is a symlink to gcc-x.yz and the
package provides the alternative cc (pointing to gcc). Will this work?
What about packages like colorgcc?



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