On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > 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?
To me that's the way it should be on a GNU system :-) Thanks! Fede
