On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 10:26:37AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > marko writes: > > As in subject: I think that cc and gcc should be provided > > through update-alternatives mechanism, so user could > > switch between gcc272, gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.0 more easily. > > > > Eg. use gcc-3.0 for cc but gcc-2.95 for gcc or whatever... > > gcc-3.0 doesn't use alternatives to make sure that the preferred > system compiler is used when calling 'gcc'. If you want to test > gcc-3.0 for a particular package,
'preferred' by whom? I think that this should be controlled by sysadmin. The whole 'alternatives' system for making easy for sysadmin to change defaults. Why gcc is exception? > - use CC=gcc-3.0 CXX=g++-3.0 when configuring/compiling a package Yeah, I know that. > - make ~<user>/bin/gcc a symlink to gcc-3.0 and add it to your path But if I want to do that on system level? -- marko