On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 15:54, Iain Sandoe wrote: > > Right now, we don’t install a “cc” [we install gcc] but we do install “c++” > [ we also install g++, of course].
Some GNU/Linux distros do install /usr/bin/cc as a sym link to GCC. > Some configure scripts (and one or two places in the testsuite) do try to > invoke ‘cc’ which can lead to inconsistent tools being used, if a GCC install > is ahead in the PATH of some other install which does provide cc. > > Is there a reason for this omission, or is it unintentional? At a guess, traditional UNIX systems already had a cc, which GCC didn't want to clash with, but may not have had a C++ compiler until GCC was installed. But that's just a guess, and if it was ever true is probably not a reason to continue it now.
