Tim Prince wrote: > Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > >> While you're at it, if you have a chance, I think a f95 would be helpful >> as well. >> > but some of us may prefer to leave it to the operator to create an alias > or symlink, which otherwise will increase the number of conflicts which > arise when we use cygwin as a development environment with other compilers.
ABCD wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >> According to Yaakov (Cygwin/X) on 3/17/2009 10:52 PM: >>> Actually, SUSv2 requires a cc and c89; SUSv3 mentions only a c99. >> So it would be nice to have all three names. And perhaps c89 (but not the >> others) should imply --std=gnu89. >> > > Just as a point of reference, Gentoo Linux provides c89 and c99 as shell > scripts, which contain the following: Perhaps the nice thing to would be supply an auxiliary (optional) package full of alternative-name helper shell scripts like these. (Apropos of nothing, I'll point out that SUS may demand cc, c89 and/or c99, but says nothing about cc-3, c89-3, c99-4, or any other such combination.... so it might be enough to just ship scripts and let them point to whatever the default selected by alternatives is?) cheers, DaveK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/