On 28/01/2011 23:05, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > So it seems like people want it both ways. Some people want to invoke a > symlink which points to the real gcc, which requires canonicalization. > Some people want the real gcc to be a symlink which points elsewhere, > which requires non-canonicalization. I don't know what the best choice > is. Neither case seems particularly common to me.
I think the case which is particularly common is the alternatives system, which has a chain of symlinks finally pointing to a real gcc. (That works just fine with the current default, AFAIK, although that may be only because the real gcc is in $PATH?) cheers, DaveK