Udo Weber wrote:
> Hi,
> here are some (maybe stupid) HowTo-questions for Mandrake:
>
> 1.
> After each install of the Mandrake, linuxconf give the error-msg
> that some of the /etc/*-files are newer as the current date
> The reason is maybe that I select during install timezone Europe/Berlin.
>
> As circumvention I always have to do a recursive touch to all /etc/*
> After this the linuxconf works well.
> Is this the right way ? Maybe this should be done from the
> mandrake_firstime ?
>
> 2.
> Since a long time (I don't know anymore when this was changed) I missed
> from the KDE-desktop
> the possibility to create a new icon (when I press the right
> mousebutton).
> Maybe I can modify the mousemenu but I think this should be a standard
> procedure for all users.
> Is there any other way to create a new icon execept a new folder ?
>
> 3.
> In Mandrake there are two typs of C-compilers: gcc (the standand) and
> additional egcs after installation in /usr/lib/gcc-lib. But in the
> /usr/bin there is only a real binary for gcc, egcs has only
> a script with the version-info.
> Is there any way to change the default compiler from gcc to egcs or to
> toggle which should be use ?
> What is the sence of both if there are no info or standard way to use
> both ?
> In the past I got several probs to compile the kernel or other stuff
> with the gcc from Mandrake, my circumvention always was to move to SuSE
> 6.3 (which use the egcs) and which does the compilation without probs.
>
> Thanks in advance for answers
> and don't worry if my questions are too stupid :)
>
> Udo
simply add --egcs-version tot he c flags
and it will use the egcs version
:)
-DarkWlf
