On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 16:25:09 +0100, Anders Hammarquist wrote: > > I think we have two goals here: > > - Make the developers use gcc for building C code in packages. [*] > > This is IMHO not a good idea. On the alpha architecture, gcc (at least > 2.7.2.x) is broken, and all Debian packages in the alpha dist are compiled > with egcs.
Erm. /usr/bin/gcc _is_ egcs gcc on Alpha, unless I'm mistaken. > Being able to change compilers is a good idea. Mandating that cc be a > symlink to gcc is not. Perhaps "mandating that cc on machines used to build packages is a symlink to the primary C compiler for the architecture the machine runs" come closer to what we're trying to suggest. Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
