For me, the worst part was having gxx symlinked to clang. What happened was, the first time I had to compile software that needed real gxx, I went fiddling with

For me, the worst part was having gxx symlinked to clang. What happened was, the first time I had to compile software that needed real gxx, I went fiddling with paths and symlinks to get that software working. Then, months later, I had to compile something that needed clang, so I fiddled some more, and just for kicks, tried to keep track, so I could compile the original software that required gxx. That all worked fine, if painful and time consuming. Later, I was surprised to find the Ruby Gems use gxx, make, and autoconf. I thought it was a pure Ruby code package manager, that would just tell me to install some native library if it wasn't there, but no, it wants to download and build for itself using gxx.