On 02.17 Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Friday 16 February 2001 18:31, J . A . Magallon wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Every update of gcc kills /var/lib/rpm/alternatives/gcc. So you do not
> > have /usr/bin/gcc, just /usr/bin/gcc-2.96.
>
> And this promptly kills any attempt to run VMware's vmware-config.pl which
> has 2 compile sections - the first prompts for the location of gcc and the
> second doesn't. This means that after every gcc upgrade I need to put the
> link back into /usr/bin.
To let your system in a better state, copy /var/lib/rpm/alternatives/g++
to /var/lib/rpm/alternatives/gcc, edit to change the '++'s to 'cc's and
run update-alternatives.
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