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Re: would a gcc by any other name still smell?
- To: robertl at dgii dot com (Robert Lipe)
- Subject: Re: would a gcc by any other name still smell?
- From: Tim Hollebeek <tim at wagner dot Princeton dot EDU>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 13:02:22 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
Robert Lipe writes ...
>
> (or something like that. :-)
>
> If you type 'make install' on egcs, you get a c compiler that
> calls itself 'gcc'.
>
> 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.
Doing it is just as easy as having two FSF gcc versions around. On
our machines here, I have 2.7.2 as the default gcc, and if I want
egcs, I use 'gcc -V egcs-2.90.17'. works like a charm.
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