On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:42:47PM -0800, Danek Duvall wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:34:22PM -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:16:54PM -0800, Danek Duvall wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:46:11AM -0800, Douglas Walls wrote: > > > > > > > Ah, yes thanks for that clarification. /usr/compilers has such public > > > > interfaces, i.e. a bin, lib and man directory intended to be placed in > > > > $PATH and $MANPATH when necessary to override whatever the current > > > > defaults are in /usr/bin /usr/man. > > > > > > But if you're putting links for everything in /usr/bin and /usr/share/man, > > > and there is only the single version, then why would you set PATH and > > > MANPATH? > > > > To pick one from multiple versions. Like we do with Perl5, say. > > Yes, but to quote from the revised fast-track: > > There will not be multiple versions, there will only be one set of > bundled compilers.
Oh, silly me, I thought that because LSARC/2008/776 proposed to deliver GNU compilers into /usr/compilers/gcc<version> that this one would too. I guess I have to read the rest of this thread (or slink away -- it seems daunting). Our build machines have multiple versions of Sun Studio installed. Why would one not want the this case to allow the same??? Nico --
