On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:22:08AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > On 03/22/10 10:08 AM, Nicolas Williams wrote: > >I don't understand the sturm un drang over the /usr/gnu/bin-first-in- > >default-PATH thing. It's a NON-ISSUE (except for GNU tools like ls and > >chmod where lack of support for Solaris-specific features creates > >problems. > > And "cp". And make. And....
"make"? > This issue is not something "small". Lets take the discussion where > it belongs in 2010/067, since that's the case that proposed the > /usr/gnu path change. There's just a few commands for which this is an issue. In general there's no problem with having GNU utils in /usr/gnu/bin, nor with having /usr/gnu/bin first in the default PATH. In any case, I don't see how any of this is remotely relevant to the ksh93 case. (The ksh93 i-team have not proposed replacing /usr/gnu/bin utils with AST equivalents.) Nico --