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.
