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From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o>
To: Lei Zhang <zhanglei.april@×××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] new eselect module: compiler
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2016 13:45:25
Message-Id: 20160806144504.71e6e4f7@symphony.aura-online.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] new eselect module: compiler by Lei Zhang
1 On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 13:16:45 +0800
2 Lei Zhang <zhanglei.april@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > I'm proposing to offer a new eselect module "compiler". Briefly
5 > speaking, it manages /usr/bin/{cc,c++} as symlinks to C/C++ compilers
6 > specified by the user.
7
8 I'm not on the toolchain team so I cannot comment much but be aware
9 that there was previously an eselect module called "compiler". It was
10 removed in 2007 because it did silly things. See this bug.
11
12 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199914
13
14 I'm not suggesting that your version does silly things. :) I don't know
15 how practical is it to swap "cc" with something other than gcc as I've
16 never tried clang.
17
18 --
19 James Le Cuirot (chewi)
20 Gentoo Linux Developer

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