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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2001 22:42:56 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com>
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <20011027224256.A35705@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20011027100907.U96876@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
References:  <200110250222.f9P2M30H071765@atg.aciworldwide.com> <20011026153313.C96876@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20011026192933.B16134@hades.hell.gr> <20011027004636.C94651@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011027100907.U96876@daemon.ninth-circle.org>

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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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