Andrew Gaul created THRIFT-1817: ----------------------------------- Summary: make install should install versioned binary and symlink to thrift binary Key: THRIFT-1817 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-1817 Project: Thrift Issue Type: Improvement Components: Compiler (General) Affects Versions: 0.9 Reporter: Andrew Gaul
This allows users install multiple versions of Thrift. In my use case, I have a program where older branches use Thrift 0.8 while master uses 0.9. Versioned binaries mimics the behavior of GCC: {noformat} $ ls -l /usr/bin/gcc* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 13 2012 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.6 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 353216 Apr 15 2012 /usr/bin/gcc-4.6 {noformat} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira