On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Gary Mills <mills at cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote: > There are several places in Opensolaris where PATH and MANPATH are set. > By default, however, when I rlogin to an Nevada b81 release, I find that > PATH=/usr/bin > and MANPATH is not set at all. This is pitiful! Many people assume that > nothing else > is installed on Opensolaris; they build and install their own copies. > Surely, /usr/sfw/bin > and /usr/ccs/bin should be in the default PATH, with similar directories in > MANPATH. > > As well, the linker should search /usr/sfw/bin by default. Again, people > assume that > the libraries are not present when the linker doesn't find them. When > people are > building software on Opensolaris, they should be using the native libraries, > rather than > ones that they've installed themselves.
Your subject is wrong. PATH is not "broken". Broken would imply a bug of some sort. At best, you could say "PATH could have a better default value". I would not expect or want every single installed program to be in my default path (think xpg4, xpg6, etc.). -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
