Hi All,
I recently made a fresh new Cygwin installation. I asked for the full
installation of the "devel" category to be installed, which resulted
in both gcc and gcc4 to be installed. (BTW, great work with gcc4
package, thanks a lot!!!)
I wonder:
1. Is is safe to remove the old gcc (3.*) packages and replace them by
symlinks to the new gcc4 executables?
2. In this case, which executables should I point the symlink to? For
instance, if I were to replace g77 by a symlink to gfortran, which of
the 4 gfortran executables should I use:
$ locate gfortran | grep exe
/bin/gfortran-4.exe
/bin/i686-pc-cygwin-gfortran-4.exe
/usr/bin/gfortran-4.exe
/usr/bin/i686-pc-cygwin-gfortran-4.exe
3. Lastly, just a dumb question: why do we get multiple executables in
the first place? I noticed that g77 also comes in multiple files:
$ locate g77 | grep exe
/bin/g77.exe
/usr/bin/g77.exe
Is that really necessary?
Thanks a lot,
--
Gustavo Seabra
Postdoctoral Associate
Quantum Theory Project - University of Florida
Gainesville - Florida - USA
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