dissappearing sym link

[richard]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:28:56 +0100
Henrik Johansson <dahankzter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you sure that this is the case?
> I have the symlink and I just some 2 weeks ago performed the upgrade.
> 
> 
> thebluepill:~$ ls -al /usr/bin/gcc
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2008-11-04 21:46 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.3
> 
> The timestamp is also fairly reasonable although i guess an update
> could theoretically have fixed it.
> 
> Sorry if this is redundant i just now noticed this and the history was
> lost in this last email.
> 
> Regards,
> 	Henrik
> 
> 
Hi Henrik
I'm as sure as I can be, I had problems with an app after upgrading,
hence the reason to regress and try again, the same happened again.
Nuke the lot and a fresh install and the sym link is there.
The regressions to 8.04 were clean installs.
I only found it after running strace on a build that failed.
I didn't file a bug report, its a wacky bug and its priority is likely
to be very low.
As most users are unlikely to compile anything its hardly going to get
noticed, and anyone who regularly builds will spot it quickly.
And as for the troublesome app I was try to build, it still won't.
If anyone takes any notice , please put g95 back in the main distro.
-- 
Best wishes

Richard Bown

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