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From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
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On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 10:09:07AM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
>
> >Please!  No one has come close to suggesting 'cc' goes away as a command.
>
> Exactly.
>
> Only reason I uttered my idea of:
>
> cc -> gcc
>
> And have that behaviour under a knob is that when I install other C
> compilers and they make a cc -> whatevercc in /usr/local/bin or
> something it will pick that cc up without mangling PATH back and forth.
>
> Not a big deal if it's there or not, just eases work a bit.  But this
> knob would be on by default to make the symlinks.

In that case, I stand corrected :)
If the default will be to still make a link cc -> gcc (and all their
friends, like c++, etc), then this does not soundn like a bad idea.
Not bad at all.

-giorgos


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