zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Ricardo, > > On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 at 16:21, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote: >> >> I’m assuming that you installed the “gcc” package. Don’t do that. >> Install “gcc-toolchain” instead. > > Is it because of the comment in the definition of `make-gcc-toolchain'? > > ;; The main raison d'être of this "meta-package" is (1) to > conveniently > ;; install everything that we need, and (2) to make sure ld-wrapper comes > ;; before Binutils' ld in the user's profile. > > Even if the section of Manual provides useful information, the (2) > point clearly explains why "what you really want is the > `gcc-toolchain' package." :-) Yes, this is the reason. I still think that we should hide the plain gcc packages on the command line. -- Ricardo
