From: Alexander Hvostov (vulture@aoi.dyndns.org)                               
Subject: Re: c++ problems                                                      
Newsgroups: debian.devel                                                       
Date: 2001-05-14 20:09:05 PST                                                  

On Tue, 15 May 2001 13:02:37 +1000
Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:

> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:15:22PM -0500, Gordon Sadler wrote:
> > I'm a little confused at this point.
> > ls -l /etc/alternatives/c++
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           12 Apr 28 16:59
> > /etc/alternatives/c++ -> /usr/bin/g++
> > ls -l /usr/bin/g++
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 Apr 28 16:59 /usr/bin/g++ ->
> > g++-2.95
> > 
> > If this is correct so far, so good.
> 
> nope, it wasn't correct - at least on my system.
> 
> with the help of Steve Robbins, i discovered that i had an old version
> of /usr/bin/c++ (2.95.2) hanging around.
> 
> this wasn't a symlink to /etc/alternatives, it was a real file.
> 
> # ls -l /usr/bin/c++
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        69456 Oct 25  1999 /usr/bin/c++
> 
> 
> so, turns out it was a false alarm...or at least, it was only a problem on
> my system.
> 
> 
> i've checked a few of my other debian systems and they have the correct
> symlinks...but now i'll have to check them all (or at least, all of
> the older ones built prior to Oct 1999) in case this was caused by a
> long-ago buggy upgrade.

The answer to that is Yes, as I have the same problem. Thanks for the info,
I'm fixing it now. See my previous message on this subject for my suggestion
of putting some code in g++'s preinst to auto-fix this.

Regards,

Alex.

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