From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Oct 27 0:47:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D893737B401 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 00:47:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f9R7kaO94879; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 00:46:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 00:46:36 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , Lyndon Nerenberg , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20011027004636.C94651@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: arch@FreeBSD.org References: <200110250222.f9P2M30H071765@atg.aciworldwide.com> <20011026153313.C96876@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20011026192933.B16134@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011026192933.B16134@hades.hell.gr>; from charon@labs.gr on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 07:29:34PM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 07:29:34PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:33:13PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > >Based on this, what do you think about adding a NO_GNU_COMPLER_CMD_LINKS > > >macro to make.conf? If set, if would prevent the linking of cc -> > > >gcc and c++ -> g++, freeing up /usr/local/bin/g* for the site to > > >decide? (And I'm not tied to that horribly long macro name, either.) > > > > I would sooner prefer the other way around. Have gcc and g++ and have a > > knob to not create the gcc -> cc symlink. :) > > No please. > > I don't mind having both cc and gcc on my disks, but `cc' is the name > of the system compiler. Since our system compiler is gcc, I'd expect > both links to exist. Having a compiled named gcc is a GNU'ism that > has stuck with us now, but having a compiler called cc is something > that is part of what I've learned to call Unix. Please! No one has come close to suggesting 'cc' goes away as a command. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message