Hey folks, I seemed to have solved my problem with the missing
'egcs' file in the egcs package on Mandrake 7.0. I have another
older PC here at home that I installed RedHat 6.0 on and took a
look in the /usr/bin directory on that computer. I did a
'cmp' on /usr/bin/gcc and /usr/bin/egcs and they are the same!
I then (as root) created a symbolic link on my Mandrake 7.0
installation in /usr/bin:
ln -s gcc egcs
and after that everything works fine!
(It would have been nice to have packaged egcs, though, anyway!)
Tom
Tom Barraza wrote:
>
> Has anyone else installed the egcs packages in Mandrake 7.0, and
> actually gotten the program 'egcs' to be installed? I've looked
> in all of the egcs-* packages, and have been unable to find 'egcs'!
>
> I had Redhat 6.1 installed on my machine, previous to doing a
> clean install of Mandrake 7.0, and had no problems using egcs.
> In fact, I used the kpackage manager tool to look at the contents
> of the egcs packages on the RedHat 6.1 CD, and the program /usr/bin/egcs
> is included, whereas for Mandrake 7.0, it is NOT!
>
> Should I install the RedHat 6.1 versions of egcs into Mandrake 7.0?
> I'm a little hesitant because I don't want to break anything!
>
> Any clues would be appreciated ...
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
