[Linux-disciples] /bin/cc

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Dylan Thurston 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.

Right, alternatives is in Ubuntu, but cpan is cross-distro. In fact, I think
cpan is basically also cross-platform. There is no alternatives system in
Windows either.

So for it to work in Debian, Ubuntu, and other alternatives supporting
distros, they would have to have distro- and platform-specific patches for
cpan. Probably doesn't make a lot of sense.