Re: [Plib-users] Library Initialization

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Sam Stickland wrote:

> > > > You might want to downgrade your gcc to something that works.  RedHat
> > > > are coming in for a lot of flak over their decision to ship a
> relatively
> > > > poorly tested beta version.
> > >
> > > No need.  Type recompiling everything with kgcc instead of gcc. kgcc is
> the
> > > Linus blessed version for compiling kernals.
> >
> > I havn't heard of that.  It's not installed on SuSE Linux.
> 
> I think it's only on RedHat 7.0 as a getout for Alan Cox's decision to  the
> development release of gcc.

So they were WELL AWARE of what they were doing - and the kernel guys complained
and they STILL WENT AHEAD!  Yikes!  This is much worse than I thought.
 
> > > alias gcc kgcc
> > >
> > > might do the trick
> >
> > ...and g++ ==> kg++ ?
> >
> > I don't think an 'alias' will work BTW, the Makefile system probably uses
> > bash or something.
> 
> Yeah, I was thinking it might do that but I don't have to much experience
> with the way Unix shells handle their environments.  I supposed you could
> add the aliases to.bashrc but to...

The way things are set up is to try to avoid user's own aliases creeping
into scripts and Makefiles and such.  People like to do thing like:

alias ls ls -al
alias rm rm -i
alias test /home/steve/binaries/my_test_program

...which can play **HAVOC** with system scripts, configure scripts and
Makefiles!!

The system doesn't prevent you from doing things like that (because
UNIX likes to give you all the power it can) - but it is mildly
resistant to non-knowledgeable users tinkering.
 
> > rename the original gcc/g++ to something else and
> > symlink to them to kgcc or whatever.
> 
> ...is probably a better solution.

Yes.

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