Symlinks to ARM toolchain binaries

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Hi!

It seems that the PlayDate SDK installer created a bunch of symlinks in /usr/local/bin/ for various ARM toolchain components (such as arm-none-eabi-g++ for example). They all point to the actual binaries located in /usr/local/playdate/gcc-arm-none-eabi-9-2019-q4-major/bin/. This results in a conflict when the user tries to install an ARM toolchain of their own (such as brew install arm-none-eabi-gcc).

Is it safe to overwrite these symlinks? If no, is there an automatic way to restore them when they are needed?

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Deleting or overwriting the symlinks will cause builds to fail, but you should be able to restore them with this shell command:

ln -sf /usr/local/playdate/gcc-arm-none-eabi-9-2019-q4-major/bin/* /usr/local/bin

(Or you can just run the Playdate SDK installer again.)

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