[NBLUG/talk] Stumped
Bill Kendrick
nbs at sonic.net
Mon Jan 31 10:59:15 PST 2005
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:53:50AM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> If it's not there, you'll want to check Debian Alternatives, or simply
> make a symbolic link yourself. As root,
Oh, and FYI:
http://alternatives.sourceforge.net/
Quoting:
"It is possible for several programs fulfilling the same or similar
functions to be installed on a single system at the same time. For
example, many systems have several text editors installed at
once. This gives choice to the users of a system, allowing each to use
a different editor, if desired, but makes it difficult for a program
to make a good choice of editor to invoke if the user has not
specified a particular preference."
Looking at "/etc/alternatives/cc" on my Debian server here at work, it's
a symbolic link to "gcc" in /usr/bin:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 May 7 2004 /etc/alternatives/cc -> /usr/bin/gcc
And actually, it looks like /outside/ the Alternatives system is where the
GCC symbolic linking is going on. My copy of "/usr/bin/gcc" is simply
a symbolic link itself:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 7 2004 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-2.95
And it looks like I have a choice between 2.95 and 3.0:
$ ls gcc-*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 74088 Sep 23 2002 /usr/bin/gcc-2.95
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 74056 Apr 7 2002 /usr/bin/gcc-3.0
:)
-bill!
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