Re: problem installing perl modules under Linux Mint

One cursory effort and a can of worms opened up - much more is needed to configure cc to use gcc it seems and I don't want to overhack my distro.

i think it is as simple as that:

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 Mar  3 19:21 /usr/bin/cc -> gcc
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Re^2: problem installing perl modules under Linux Mint by anonymized user 468275 (Curate) on Jul 13, 2018 at 08:25 UTC
that was of course my cursory effort which merely opened the way for more problems to appear. One world, one people	[reply]
Re^3: problem installing perl modules under Linux Mint by bliako (Abbot) on Jul 13, 2018 at 08:33 UTC
that was of course my cursory effort which merely opened the way for more problems to appear. Sure, what are these problems?	[reply]
Re^4: problem installing perl modules under Linux Mint by anonymized user 468275 (Curate) on Jul 13, 2018 at 10:14 UTC
It still insisted gcc wasn't working although the symbolic link as already suggested/done did get it to try gcc instead of a missing cc -- there were then more make test issues, missing directories and missing c header files perl needed e.g. sys/types.h. Before switching to Ubuntu, so I can't reproduce it now, I concluded that gcc always needs a clean installation rather than a readymade delivery, i.e; either distros need to ship a slightly old gcc to make this upgrade possible or they need to schedule the compilation at the end of the first boot processing. One world, one people	[reply]