Re: egcs-1.03a behaves like gcc-2.7 ????

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <35BD9CDF.F8EC667B@phya1.physik.uni-bielefeld.de>you write:
  > So I asked a friend of mine (who had installed egcs from a
  > binary distribution) to compare size of executables (which,
  > as we all know, is bigger with egcs than with gcc-2.7).
  > My executables seemed to be a bit smaller (well, usually I'm
  > happy with small executables, but not in this special case
  > ;-). So he supposed me to explicitly set CC to egcc and
  > CXX to eg++ and I started to look for'em, this is was I got:
  > 
  > weyoun:/# find . -name eg*
  > ./home/twesthei/Office40/bin/egi36449.res
  > ./home/twesthei/KDE/src/kdesupport/giflib30/egif_lib.c
  > ./home/twesthei/KDE/src/kdesupport/giflib30/.deps/egif_lib.P
  > ./home/twesthei/KDE/src/kdesupport/giflib30/egif_lib.o
  > ./home/twesthei/KDE/src/kdesupport/giflib30/egif_lib.lo
  > ./usr/man/man1/egrep.1.gz
  > ./usr/bin/egrep
  > ./usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/egcs-2.90.29
  > ./usr/local/share/gimp/scripts/egg.scm
  > ./usr/local/share/gimp/patterns/eggcarton.pat
  > ./usr/local/kde-980725/share/apps/krepton/data/egypt
  > ./usr/src/egcs-obj
  > ./usr/src/egcs-1.0.3a
  > 
  > In short: I don't have them !!! I recompiled the whole tree
  > for about 10 times now and installed the whole thing, no
  > errors so far and I still don't have it ???
The standard egcs distributions do not install "egcc", "egcs", "eg++"
or other binaries by those names.  They install "gcc", "g++", and "g77".
So it is not a suprise that no binaries were found by your find
command.

Some binary distributions may install as "egcc" or "eg++", but that is
not how standard releases install.

I would recommend you build a C & C++ hello world file, then compile
them with gcc -v and g++ -v.  That will give you the necessary information
to find what what compiler you're actually using.

jeff