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From: devine@cookie.dec.com (Bob Devine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: fpcc's name is not cc!!
Message-ID: <8802170050.AA24011@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 17 Feb 88 00:50:09 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In article <214@mccc.UUCP>, pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
> I have the floating point C compiler, fpcc, on my 3B2 (SVr3.0) but do
> not have cc.  I tried linking fpcc to ccso I can avoid editing every
> makefile that comes down the pike, but the system says (when I invoke
> cc) "name must end in fpcc".  Is there Aa way around this?  Thanks.

  The best way is to make the compiler call a symbol so that other
compilers can be used.  If you want to have portable makefiles, do this!

  Since you don't want to correct everyone's mistakes, you can just
use a script file called 'cc' that calls 'fpcc'.  Argument passing
may be tricky but it's your choice of evils.

  An old dictum: Any problem can be solved with another layer of indirection....