Re: alternatives for gcc

[Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com>]

On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:18:00 +0100
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 2011-02-02 03:01 +0100, Andrew Reid wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 01 February 2011 20:11:31 Joe Riel wrote:
> >> Why are there no alternatives, configurable with
> >> update-alternatives, for gcc? Seems like I should be able to
> >> configure whether /usr/bin/gcc is linked to gcc-4.3, gcc-4.4,
> >> etc.   Of course I can just set the link manually (which I do),
> >> but ...
> 
> See /usr/share/doc/gcc/README.Debian why gcc is not managed via
> alternatives.

Thanks for pointing me here.  
 
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Joe Riel