> No matter how the cake is cut, our AIX machines (and probably AIX in > general) need to symlink the default system compiler to `cc'.
No, please do NOT put such a symlink in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. The compilefarm machines are used for portability testing. They should be as similar as the machines shipped by the respective vendors, so that testers (e.g. on platform-test...@gnu.org) can report problems with the installation instructions of the respective packages. An "AIX with modifications for convenience" box is therefore of lower value than an unmodified AIX box. (Installing emacs or vim is not a problem here, because very few configure scripts test for the presence of emacs or vim.) If someone needs an "AIX with modifications for convenience" environment he can easily produce such an environment by putting a symlink in their $HOME/bin/. Btw, Mr. Graff, why are you dealing with this machine? You said that AIX portability was "nearly useless" to you [1] and that you would log out of the machine immediately [2]. Bruno [1] https://lists.tetaneutral.net/pipermail/cfarm-users/2017-October/000130.html [2] https://lists.tetaneutral.net/pipermail/cfarm-users/2017-October/000117.html _______________________________________________ cfarm-users mailing list cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net https://lists.tetaneutral.net/listinfo/cfarm-users
