hans schneidhofer wrote on Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:25:07AM +0200 : > > have discovered a seldom thing here : > was looking in /usr/bin and found cc as well as gcc. doing a ls -al I saw, > that cc is a link to gcc and gcc is a link to /etc/alernatives/gcc > and that is a link to gcc-3.2 > is this correct or something of stupid ?
Yes, it's correct. It allows you to have multiple versions of the same
program installed simultaneously. Make sure that the link that is in
/etc/alternatives points to the correct program name.
Blue skies... Todd
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