Shawn Walker wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 06:58:57PM +0100, Rainer Orth wrote: >>> George Vasick writes: >>>> Actually, we are proposing to to install binutils 2.19 in >>>> /usr/compilers/binutils219. It will be a separate package and not >>>> contained in /usr/compilers/gcc432. >>> Again, my questions about the reasons for that haven't been answered >>> yet: >>> >>> * Why /usr/compilers at all? We don't have /usr/webservers or >>> /usr/databases. >> >> I object to /usr/compilers also. Might I suggest /usr/lib/compilers >> instead? > > So why was /usr/compilers chosen instead of /usr/gcc, etc. as we have > /usr/apache, /usr/apache2, etc. now?
We choose /usr/compliers because we wanted a central location for all compilers, both GCC and Sun Studio. The Studio team plans to follow this convention as well. We could use /usr/lib/compilers as easily as /usr/compilers. Is there a reason we should avoid /usr/compilers? I see we have things like /usr/apache, /usr/appserver, /usr/jdk, /usr/php, and /usr/mysql already in place on solaris. Thanks, George
