would a gcc by any other name still smell?

Loren J. Rittle rittle@supra.rsch.comm.mot.com
Mon Nov 24 23:03:00 GMT 1997


In article < 199711241802.NAA06983@franck.Princeton.EDU >,
Tim Hollebeek <tim@wagner.princeton.edu> writes:

> 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.

Unfortunately, this solution does not work so great.  The standard C++
libraries are located at the exact same location on the file system
for both compiler versions by default.

My next e-mail contains a useful patch to this problem going forward.

Regards,
Loren



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