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Date:      Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:29:34 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com>, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <20011026192933.B16134@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20011026153313.C96876@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
References:  <200110250222.f9P2M30H071765@atg.aciworldwide.com> <20011026153313.C96876@daemon.ninth-circle.org>

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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.

-giorgos

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