tags 112887 + wontfix thanks Adrian von Bidder writes: > Package: gcc-3.0 > Severity: wishlist > Version: 1:3.0.2-0pre010908 > > Hi! > > I would be glad if gcc would install itself in the Debian alternatives > system. gcc-3.0 is quite stable, and I would like to test it by using it as > my standard compiler; as it does not set /usr/bin/gcc (and rightly so), I > thought it would be really nice to have alternatives.
gcc-3.0 doesn't use alternatives to make sure that the preferred system compiler is used when calling 'gcc'. If you want to test gcc-3.0 for a particular package, - use CC=gcc-3.0 CXX=g++-3.0 when configuring/compiling a package - make ~<user>/bin/gcc a symlink to gcc-3.0 and add it to your path
