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Re: would a gcc by any other name still smell?
- To: Robert Lipe <robertl at dgii dot com>
- Subject: Re: would a gcc by any other name still smell?
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 20:43:30 -0800
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <19971123152653.61402@dgii.com>you write:
> If you type 'make install' on egcs, you get a c compiler that
> calls itself 'gcc'.
Correct.
> If we do this, we're damned because it's not the FSF release and
> it would make it difficult to have both EGCS and GCC installed at
> the same time.
Kinda. That's life. We discussed changing the install name, but it doesn't
seem to be the right thing to do at this time. Depending on where all the
pieces fall this can be revisited in the future.
> Has a plan been forumalated? Are we going to force users to either
> choose or the other or use a funky build process for one or the other?
You can install them both, the version #s are different (on purpose) and
select them via -V switches -- similarl to using gcc -V 2.6.3 or gcc -V 2.7.2
to select gcc-2.6.3 or gcc-2.7.2.
jeff