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R: Chossing the 'active' gcc version


-- Mar 17/11/09, John Cortell ha scritto:

> I installed cygwin with the
> development tools package and I got two versions of
> gcc (3.x and 4.x). In a cygwin shell, when I type 'gcc
> --version', I see that
> 3.x is the default. I also see that the mapping of the
> version-less commands to
> the 3.x version is done through a series of links.
> 
> I've googled this to death and can't find an answer.
> There's got to be an easy
> way to switch over those links to refer to 4.x, no? Some
> script or tool that
> handles changing all the links?
> 

man alternatives 

for seeing current settings:
$/usr/sbin/alternatives --display gcc

Regards
Marco






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