Re: [5.4-stable i386] gcc4.8 executable names prefixed with e

2014-01-30 Thread Landry Breuil
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 01:08:13AM -0500, Adam Jensen wrote: Hi, I installed the gnat-4.8 package and I noticed that all of the executables were prefixed with an e, e.g. egcc, egnat, egnatmake, etc. This introduces some awkwardness into building other software. Is there a good reason to

Re: [5.4-stable i386] gcc4.8 executable names prefixed with e

2014-01-30 Thread Stuart Henderson
It would cause problems. If the software you're building doesn't support setting compiler names via environment variables to a configure script or via overriding variables on the make command line (as most do), the simplest option is to place symlinks in a directory (cc- usr/local/bin/egcc etc)

Re: [5.4-stable i386] gcc4.8 executable names prefixed with e

2014-01-30 Thread Adam Jensen
Thanks for the responses! Setting user aliases, environment variables, and passing variables through *make* seem to take care of most of the issue. However, I am currently stuck with this error (during a build): egcc-ar: Cannot find plugin 'liblto_plugin.so' The plugin seems to be present:

Re: [5.4-stable i386] gcc4.8 executable names prefixed with e

2014-01-30 Thread Adam Jensen
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 19:20:37 -0500 Adam Jensen han...@riseup.net wrote: Thanks for the responses! Setting user aliases, environment variables, and passing variables through *make* seem to take care of most of the issue. However, I am currently stuck with this error (during a build):

[5.4-stable i386] gcc4.8 executable names prefixed with e

2014-01-29 Thread Adam Jensen
Hi, I installed the gnat-4.8 package and I noticed that all of the executables were prefixed with an e, e.g. egcc, egnat, egnatmake, etc. This introduces some awkwardness into building other software. Is there a good reason to have it this way? Or, to put it another way, would it break