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On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 13:16:45 +0800 |
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Lei Zhang <zhanglei.april@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I'm proposing to offer a new eselect module "compiler". Briefly |
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> speaking, it manages /usr/bin/{cc,c++} as symlinks to C/C++ compilers |
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> specified by the user. |
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I'm not on the toolchain team so I cannot comment much but be aware |
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that there was previously an eselect module called "compiler". It was |
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removed in 2007 because it did silly things. See this bug. |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199914 |
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I'm not suggesting that your version does silly things. :) I don't know |
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how practical is it to swap "cc" with something other than gcc as I've |
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never tried clang. |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |