Creating symbolic links to the compiler invocations

To use the compiler without typing the complete path, you can create symbolic links in the /usr/bin/ directory for the specific invocations that are contained in the installation_path/xlC/13.1.0/bin/ directory.

If you have not already done so when you ran xlc_install, you can create the symbolic links for the following compiler invocations:

Links to the following invocations are not recommended, either because they delete user-defined or GCC invocations, or because they are not compiler invocation commands.
  • c89, c89_r, c99, c99_r, cc, cc_r
  • cleanpdf, mergepdf, new_install, showpdf, xlc_configure
Enter the following command to create a symbolic link: 
ln –s installation_path/xlC/13.1.0/bin/invocation /usr/bin/invocation
where:
  • installation_path is the location where you have installed the compiler packages. By default, this is /opt/ibm/.
  • invocation is one of the compiler invocations (such as xlc) in installation_path/xlC/13.1.0/bin/.
Parent topic: Setting up the environment for the invocation commands


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