https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85007

--- Comment #10 from Eric Reischer <emr-gnu at hev dot psu.edu> ---
The gcc configure line was taken directly from the Debian distribution package
build script.  Distros frequently allow having multiple versions of gcc
installed, and give them the appropriate extension via the "--program-suffix"
argument to the configure command.  They will frequently provide symlinks to
the root program names (gcc -> gcc-7.3) for convenience, but one would argue
the tools shouldn't depend on that (the root gcc, g++, etc., don't suffer from
that issue, calling their helper programs by prepending the libexecdir config
setting prior to executing the tools.

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