Re: gobject-introspection typelibs and shared libraries

[Ludovic Courtès]

Federico Beffa <address@hidden> skribis:

> A different look at aesthetics: Back in the mid '90, when Linux was
> still an underground curiosity, many UNIX admins were starting to
> install GNU user-land applications. To avoid name clashes with the
> vendor versions of programs they were prefixing all GNU applications
> with a 'g'. So, the GNU version of 'ls' was named 'gls', 'awk' ->
> 'gawk', ...  Now on GNU/Linux systems there's no need for such
> prefixing and, for consistency and to send a message, you may just
> name the C compiler with the traditional name 'cc' which means: Hey,
> this is the official system C compiler and of course, it's the GNU
> one.

Yeah, and I see that GCC installs ‘c++’.

If there’s consensus to install the symlink, that’s fine with me (if we
take that route, I would also suggest submitting a patch upstream so GCC
installs the symlink.)

It’s a rebuild-the-world change, though, so it would be for the next
‘core-updates’ cycle.  In the meantime, it’s ‘gcc’.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.