Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Use update-alternatives for /usr/bin/cc and /usr/bin/c++

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On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 03:47:13PM -0600, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > == Release Notes ==
> > The user /usr/bin/cc and /usr/bin/c++ symlinks are now managed by
> > update-alternatives.  If you would like to change these symlinks to
> > point to another compiler, like clang, for example, you can use these
> > commands:
> >
> > `update-alternatives --set cc /usr/bin/clang`
> >
> > `update-alternatives --set c++ /usr/bin/clang++`
> >
> 
> I don't know if I want *more* alternatives usage in Fedora. I like the
> fact that a basic buildroot is generally supposed to work without
> scriptlets... On the other hand, I think we're already using
> alternatives for ld...
> 
> Aside from making it possible to swap the system compiler with
> alternatives, what benefit do we get? Are there other, less script-y
> approaches that we could use?

I'm not sure that the benefits are really that big. For most cases, instead
of setting alternatives, the obvious solution would be to set $CC. Can you
expand a bit on why alternatives, which is effectively a global setting,
is preferred to a local override?

Zbyszek
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