On 2/12/2009 4:47 PM, George Vasick wrote: > John Plocher wrote: >>>>> 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. >> >> If these existing commands are from earlier versions of binutils, >> PLEASE UPDATE THEM instead of leaving them around as an obsolete >> nuisance. > An outsiders 2 cents: > No, they are all part of the same binutils package. Gnu tools can be > configured to support cross development in addition to native > development. The machine/architecture dependent paths are provided to > allow tools for multiple target systems to coexist on a single host > system. > Exactly. > Since we are not providing any cross development capability at this > point, we have the option to eliminate the machine/architecture > dependent paths for these commands if desired. > I for one wouldn't rule-out cross compilation in the future, and I'd stay awy from anyhting that would make it harder to do. Maybe I missed a problem mentioned earlier in the thread, but why not just root the i386-pc-solaris2.11 in: /usr/lib or where ever the compiler collection is rooted (what is that now? /usr/gcc? I haven't kept up.)
-Kyle > > George > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-arc mailing list > opensolaris-arc at opensolaris.org
