bug#28629: Add cc as a symlink to gcc

2017-09-28 Thread Mark H Weaver
Mohammed Sadiq writes: > Some packages seems to rely on cc as the C compiler. So within some > environment, > let cc be symlinked to the default gcc of the environment. This has been discussed before, and it was decided that in such cases, we should do what's needed to make the build system use

bug#28629: Add cc as a symlink to gcc

2017-09-27 Thread Mohammed Sadiq
Some packages seems to rely on cc as the C compiler. So within some environment, let cc be symlinked to the default gcc of the environment. This may not be noticeable when building/installing a package, because cc may be used only on rare conditions (like when enabling some disabled tests, etc), w