Byron Servies wrote:
> On 12/17/08 04:15 PM, Raj Prakash wrote:
>
>>
>> 4. Technical Description:
>> 4.1. Details:
>> - Existing GCC 3.4.3, GNU Runtime 3.4.3, and GNU Binutils 2.15 will
>> remain unchanged in /usr/sfw/.
>> - The latest community versions, GCC 4.3.2, GNU Runtime 4.3.2, and
>> GNU Binutils 2.19, will be ported to OpenSolaris and installed
>> in /usr/compilers/gcc432.
>> - Softlinks to commands in /usr/bin, e.g. /usr/bin/gcc, will be
>> created point to /usr/compilers/gcc432/bin.
>> - Softlinks to commands in /usr/gnu/bin, e.g. /usr/gnu/bin/cc, will
>> be created pointing to /usr/compilers/gcc432/bin.
>> - Libraries in /usr/compilers/gcc432/lib and
>> /usr/compilers/gcc432/lib/{MACH64}
>> will be linked into /usr/lib and /usr/lib/{MACH64}.
>
> So you are proposing to have the program referenced by 2 different names
> in 3 different places?
>
> Could you not at least make "gcc" be "gcc" everwhere (and prefix all the
> other commands with "g") to make it impossible to confuse them with the
> Sun variants? This is both common practice, and all the packages
> provide for this via the "--program-prefix" option.
We are following the convention already established in OpenSolaris with
gcc 3.4.3:
ls -l /usr/gnu/bin/cc /usr/bin/gcc /usr/sfw/bin/gcc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2008-12-11 12:56 /usr/bin/gcc ->
../sfw/bin/gcc*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2008-12-11 12:56 /usr/gnu/bin/cc ->
../../sfw/bin/gcc*
-r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 88320 2008-12-11 12:56 /usr/sfw/bin/gcc*
I also see a similar pattern on Ubuntu Linux where both cc and gcc are
links to a gcc command with a suffix, e.g. gcc-4.3.
Thanks,
George
>
> Byron
