[Linux-disciples] /bin/cc

[Dylan Thurston]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 05:10:07PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> >> No. There should be an environmental variable that will tell cpan where cc
> >> should be.
> > Ah so. I believe that's $CC. Any idea why they do it this
> > way rather than via something in the alternatives system?
> 
> I don't think the alternatives system is cross-distro.

But it is in Ubuntu.

It's probably historical.  It used to be that the vendor compiler was
called 'cc' and the GNU compiler was always 'gcc'.  Since gcc was often
better, all programs adapted to being able to use gcc to compile with,
and the environmental variable was the chosen way to do it

Peace,
	Dylan
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