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 contained in the installation_path/vacpp/8.0/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 some invocations are not recommended, either because they delete user-defined or GCC invocations, or because they are not compiler invocation commands. These include the following commands:
Use the following command to create a symbolic link:
ln –s installation_path/vacpp/8.0/bin/invocation /usr/bin/invocation
where: