Re: [PLUG] Hopefully simple Perl CPAN question

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 23:41, Bill Jonas wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:13:11PM -0500, Michael Leone wrote:
> > I should make this symlink from the shell, before starting perl?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Shouldn't the symlink be for "cc", not "gcc", since that's what the
> > makefile is issuing?
> 
> It is.  The target goes first, then the name that you want the link to
> be.  Since gcc is (presumably) in /usr/bin and you're making a link
> called "cc" in /usr/bin, it will link to gcc in the same directory.
> (Relative vs. absolute path in the link.)
> 
> $ ln -s gcc ~/bin/cc
> $ ll ~/bin/cc
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 bj       bj              3 Feb 19 23:27 /home/bj/bin/cc -> gcc

Hmmm.

workhorse:~# ln -s /usr/bin/gcc gcc
workhorse:~# ln -s /usr/bin/gcc cc

(the reverse - "ln -s gcc /usr/bin/gcc" doesn't work)

workhorse:~# ls -la cc gcc
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           12 Feb 19 23:14 cc -> /usr/bin/gcc
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           12 Feb 20 00:12 gcc -> /usr/bin/gcc

Are mine backwards, then? Because it's still failing; same message;  

make: cc: Command not found
make: *** [Syslog.o] Error 127

I'm doing this as root, and /usr/bin is in root's PATH. Should I be
putting a "cc" symlink in /usr/bin?



Thanks for the explanation of perl compilations.

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