I just noticed LSARC-ext at Sun.COM was not copied on this thread originated by Marc's reply on the 7th.
Marc originally raised the following question: > usr/i386-pc-solaris2.11 Is this strange path necessary? Can't the subdirectories (bin and lib) go directly to /usr? The answer to the first part is no. The commands in usr/i386-pc-solaris2.11/bin cannot be moved to /usr/bin since they conflict with existing Solaris commands. It is potentially possible to eliminate them, however, since they are duplicates of commands already installed in /usr/bin and /usr/gnu/bin. The remaining discussion concerns the correct location for /usr/i386-pc-solaris2.11 and in particular /usr/i386-pc-solaris2.11/lib/ldscripts which is used by the Gnu ld command. Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 02:01:42PM -0800, George Vasick wrote: >> Marc Glisse wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>> Indeed, or even directly /usr/lib/ldscripts. (Note that for gcc, there is >>> /gcc/ between /usr/lib and i386-pc-solaris2.11, so we may not want to >>> sneak binutils in there) >> The existing precedent seems to be something like the following: >> >> SuSE: /usr/x86_64-suse-linux/lib/ldscripts >> Ubuntu: /usr/lib/ldscripts >> >> While Ubuntu uses /usr/lib/ldscripts, I think it is not appropriate for >> OpenSolaris since /usr/bin/ld is the Solaris linker, not the Gnu linker. > > I don't see why the presence of the substring "ld" should lead to that > conclusion. If the path is under your control you might just prefix it > with 'g' and be done (/usr/lib/gldscripts). The binutils configuration options do not support install locations of either /usr/lib/ldscripts or /usr/lib/gldscripts. Source changes to the Makefile and/or configure script would be required. I think this should be avoided in favor of following the existing Gnu conventions if at all possible. > >> I think the best option is to stick with the original proposal of >> /usr/i386-pc-solaris2.11. > > Why do we need such clutter in /usr? I based this proposal on PSARC/2008/378, Move gcc and binutils from /usr/sfw/bin to /usr/bin. The prototype implementation set --prefix=/usr and --program-prefix=g with softlinks for the "plain" commands being added to /usr/gnu/bin. I used the same settings and /usr/i386-pc-solaris2.11 is the natural result. PSARC/2007/047, /usr/gnu, is also relevant. It specifies setting --prefix=/usr/gnu. Using this setting would result in plain commands being installed in /usr/gnu/bin with softlinks to the g-prefixed command being added in /usr/bin. This would also move /usr/i386-pc-solaris2.11 to /usr/gnu/i386-pc-solaris2.11 and the ldscripts subdirectory to /usr/gnu/i386-pc-solaris2.11/lib/ldscripts. Assuming it is desirable to eliminate i386-pc-solaris2.11 from /usr, the second option would accomplish this while staying within the configuration parameters provided by Gnu. Thanks, George
