Federico Beffa <be...@ieee.org> skribis: > A different look at aesthetics: Back in the mid '90, when Linux was > still an underground curiosity, many UNIX admins were starting to > install GNU user-land applications. To avoid name clashes with the > vendor versions of programs they were prefixing all GNU applications > with a 'g'. So, the GNU version of 'ls' was named 'gls', 'awk' -> > 'gawk', ... Now on GNU/Linux systems there's no need for such > prefixing and, for consistency and to send a message, you may just > name the C compiler with the traditional name 'cc' which means: Hey, > this is the official system C compiler and of course, it's the GNU > one.
Yeah, and I see that GCC installs ‘c++’. If there’s consensus to install the symlink, that’s fine with me (if we take that route, I would also suggest submitting a patch upstream so GCC installs the symlink.) It’s a rebuild-the-world change, though, so it would be for the next ‘core-updates’ cycle. In the meantime, it’s ‘gcc’. WDYT? Thanks, Ludo’.
