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Description: Update manual page with Debian-specific instructions
Author: Joel Rosdahl <joel@debian.org>
Forwarded: not-needed
--- a/doc/MANUAL.adoc
+++ b/doc/MANUAL.adoc
@@ -40,12 +40,15 @@ ccache gcc -c example.c
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
2. Let ccache masquerade as the compiler. This method is most useful when you
- wish to use ccache for all your compilations. To do this, create a symbolic
- link to ccache named as the compiler. For example, here is set up ccache to
- masquerade as `gcc` and `g++`:
+ wish to use ccache for all your compilations. To do this on a Debian system,
+ it's easiest to just prepend `/usr/lib/ccache` to your `PATH`.
+ `/usr/lib/ccache` contains symlinks for all compilers currently installed as
+ Debian packages.
++
+Alternatively, you can create any symlinks you like yourself like this:
+
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-cp ccache /usr/local/bin/
+cp /usr/bin/ccache /usr/local/bin/
ln -s ccache /usr/local/bin/gcc
ln -s ccache /usr/local/bin/g++
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -54,8 +57,8 @@ On platforms that don't support symbolic links you can simply copy ccache to the
compiler name instead for a similar effect:
+
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-cp ccache /usr/local/bin/gcc
-cp ccache /usr/local/bin/g++
+cp /usr/bin/ccache /usr/local/bin/gcc
+cp /usr/bin/ccache /usr/local/bin/g++
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
And so forth. This will work as long as the directory with symbolic links or
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