X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <49C1E05A.2060206@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:04:10 +0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: gcc4: cc References: <49C0467A DOT 1080404 AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net> <49C07906 DOT 2060504 AT gmail DOT com> <49C1CA1E DOT 20509 AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net> <49C1CFE7 DOT 1030401 AT sbcglobal DOT net> In-Reply-To: <49C1CFE7.1030401@sbcglobal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Tim Prince wrote: > Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > >> While you're at it, if you have a chance, I think a f95 would be helpful >> as well. >> > but some of us may prefer to leave it to the operator to create an alias > or symlink, which otherwise will increase the number of conflicts which > arise when we use cygwin as a development environment with other compilers. ABCD wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >> According to Yaakov (Cygwin/X) on 3/17/2009 10:52 PM: >>> Actually, SUSv2 requires a cc and c89; SUSv3 mentions only a c99. >> So it would be nice to have all three names. And perhaps c89 (but not the >> others) should imply --std=gnu89. >> > > Just as a point of reference, Gentoo Linux provides c89 and c99 as shell > scripts, which contain the following: Perhaps the nice thing to would be supply an auxiliary (optional) package full of alternative-name helper shell scripts like these. (Apropos of nothing, I'll point out that SUS may demand cc, c89 and/or c99, but says nothing about cc-3, c89-3, c99-4, or any other such combination.... so it might be enough to just ship scripts and let them point to whatever the default selected by alternatives is?) cheers, DaveK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/