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.

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