It would be useful if there was some pkgsrc option to create symlinks for
cc, gcc, cpp, g++, c++, et cetera.

# CC_SYMLINK=
# Create links for compiler tools in ${PREFIX}/bin for the packages
# listed when installed.
# Possible: gcc gcc3 gcc3-c gcc3-c++ tendra and other compilers
# Default: not defined

Then each package have something like:

.if defined(CC_SYMLINK) && !empty(CC_SYMLINK:Mgcc3-c++)
PLIST_SRC+=		${PKGDIR}/PLIST.symlinks
INSTALL_FILE=           ${PKGDIR}/INSTALL.symlinks
.endif


And an INSTALL script, like:

...

POST-INSTALL)
	 ${LN} -sf ${GCC_PREFIX}/bin/c++ ${PREFIX}/bin/c++
	 ${LN} -sf ${GCC_PREFIX}/bin/g++ ${PREFIX}/bin/g++

(making sure that GCC_PREFIX is defined too.)


What do you all think?

This would be useful for me to make sure I automatically have symlinks for
the compiler tools in my PATH (rather than adding /usr/.../gcc3/bin to my
execution path).

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/