On 2/13/2009 6:17 PM, John Plocher wrote: >> 2) Binutils will be installed directly into /usr/bin >> with no versioning. >> > > Sorry, I'm now really confused. > > If there is no versioning, and everything will be installed directly > into /usr/bin, then what is the directory > "/usr/gnu/i386-pc-solaris2.11/bin/" used for and isn't the > "...solaris2.11..." part of that directory name actually an OS version > dependent string? What happens when OpenSolaris moves from 2.11 to > 2.12? Why should the version of the OS impact the version of the > compiler support tools? ...etc... > > This is something the GNU compiler chain and tools have done for ages. (Emacs does it too I think.)
It does it so that the compilers and supporting tools can be installed for multiple target platforms on the same host platform. The "i386-pc-solaris2.11" is the string that Gnu uses to identify this target platform. On SPARC (the last time I checked) it was: sparc-sun-solaris2.11. At one point in time they used sunos5.x instead of solaris2.x, and personally I preferred that (It seems more logical to identify the kernel in the platform rather than 'operating env.',) but it's probably too late to change that. -Kyle > -John > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-arc mailing list > opensolaris-arc at opensolaris.org >
