From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 26 6:43:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from amsfep16-int.chello.nl (amsfep16-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0527837B405 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 06:43:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org ([62.163.96.180]) by amsfep16-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id <20011026133948.EVSL2039.amsfep16-int.chello.nl@daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org>; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:39:48 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f9QDXEh98136; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:33:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:33:13 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20011026153313.C96876@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <200110250222.f9P2M30H071765@atg.aciworldwide.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200110250222.f9P2M30H071765@atg.aciworldwide.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20011025 04:30], Lyndon Nerenberg (lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com) wrote: >18 months ago we had a conversation on the mailing list about g77 >vs. f77 as the canonical command name for the FORTRAN compiler. >The crux of the argument was that f77 was the canonical BSD name >for the command, and that's what it has been since. There was a >related argument as to whether gcc (as a name) should die as well, >but the argument was made that too many third party packages would >break as a result. For the last year I've been running my systems >with the gcc and g++ links to the respective binaries removed, and >I haven't seen much break as a result, other than a (very) few >ports which were fixed with a quick edit of their Makefile. No thanks. I know lots of people who know GCC by gcc and expect cc to be the system's compiler, whatever it may be. >Based on this, what do you think about adding a NO_GNU_COMPLER_CMD_LINKS >macro to make.conf? If set, if would prevent the linking of cc -> >gcc and c++ -> g++, freeing up /usr/local/bin/g* for the site to >decide? (And I'm not tied to that horribly long macro name, either.) I would sooner prefer the other way around. Have gcc and g++ and have a knob to not create the gcc -> cc symlink. :) -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|freebsd.org|xmach.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder, finger asmodai@ninth-circle.dnsalias.net http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ Speak the sweet truth... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message