John Levon wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 10:42:31AM +0100, John Rice wrote: > >> "I'm a bit concerned that "blessed as a GNU project" is an odd match to >> the desired features of /usr/gnu/." >> >> I know what you mean. My goal in the orginal post was to have all the >> various OSS tools present on Solaris in a way that makes it very easy to >> build OSS software out of the box. > > Stephen made it clear that the proposal is only intended to deal with the > problem of name-conflicting GNU projects, and isn't intended to cover anything > else. This seems reasonable to me. For a start, I think this currently deals > with any problems we're likely to have. I'm not aware offhand of anything we > may need to build that has naming problems. > >> I'm hoping the combination of Bart's proposal on "Serendipitous >> discovery" and Stephen's "/usr/gnu/bin" proposal will go a long way to >> solving the difficulties of building OSS on Solaris. If other OSS tools >> are still missing, that would conflict with what's in /usr/bin then >> we'll need to look again and see if other hierarchies need to be >> introduced, hopefully this will not be the case. > > Exactly. > > regards, > john > _______________________________________________ > tools-discuss mailing list > tools-discuss at opensolaris.org
Note that the current proposal will allow those with unmodified paths to build most open source freeware packages; those dealing with particularly provincial packages will need to prepend /usr/gnu to their paths. -= Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
