Re: gobject-introspection typelibs and shared libraries

[Federico Beffa]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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?

To me that's the way it should be on a GNU system :-)

Thanks!
Fede