On 2011-02-02 03:01 +0100, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Tuesday 01 February 2011 20:11:31 Joe Riel wrote: >> Why are there no alternatives, configurable with update-alternatives, >> for gcc? Seems like I should be able to configure whether /usr/bin/gcc >> is linked to gcc-4.3, gcc-4.4, etc. Of course I can just set the link >> manually (which I do), but ...
See /usr/share/doc/gcc/README.Debian why gcc is not managed via alternatives. > Can't you set up new alterantives within the update-alternatives > mechanism? > > I have never done this, but it was one of the options I was > considering a while ago to control which version of an app > was the default -- as it turned out, I was able to use the > "stow" mechanism to good effect, because it was a non-packaged > app, so I only got as far as reading the update-alterantives > documentation. > > The man-page says that the "--install" option sets up a new > batch of alternatives. > > I don't know if this will interact constructively with the > package manager. It will break very badly when you install/upgrade the gcc package which sets up the compiler links itself. Therefore, don't do that and use CC=gcc-4.3 when necessary. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqraq287....@turtle.gmx.de