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zsh: too many levels of symbolic links: gcc

lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel        16 Apr  6 13:10 g++ -> /usr/bin/g++-4.5
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel     14272 Feb 14  2014 gatherheaderdoc
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel        16 Apr  6 13:11 gcc -> /usr/bin/gcc-4.5
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel        22 Jul  2  2014 gcc-4.2 -> /usr/local/bin/gcc-4.2
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel        12 Apr  6 10:59 gcc-4.4 -> /usr/bin/gcc
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   wheel        12 Apr  6 11:17 gcc-4.5 -> /usr/bin/gcc

Hi, I'm kinda new to linux. So i need some help with this issue. I updated a new version of gcc and when I tried to check the version using gcc --version, I get the following error, zsh: too many levels of symbolic links: gcc.

I ran ls -l on /usr/bin and I found the above pasted cyclic link. Could someone help me on how to resolve this?

Solution

  • I'm sure this has already been covered in a previous answer, but, you can see you have /usr/bin/gcc which is linked to /usr/bin/gcc-4.5 which is linked to /usr/bin/gcc. Circular. So, zsh eventually stops going around and circles and gives you that message. You need to erase /usr/bin/gcc* and then reinstall it?