On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:11:46PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > That's a bit less hackish I suppose than futzing with the symlink
> > directly, but I still believe /etc/alternatives would be a good thing
> > here. If you disagree, that's fine, but I'd ask that the gcc symlink move
> > to gcc-3.0 after woody's release all the same. I've been using it since
> > the release of 3.0.2 and have had it break only on some #define abuse in
> > epic and a few things that were clearly broken such as var = var = value
> > and that like.
> >
> > Please consider it, at any rate.
>
> sure, after woody, we will change the default gcc/g++. But probably to
> gcc-3.1, when this version is released in April 2002. I think it does
> not make sense to switch to 3.0 in (say February) and then again in
> April.
That's perfectly fine, especially given that that a new compiler version
can be expected to break a partial make and auto* will not know it needs
to rebuild everything.
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