Hi Panos, Am 20.05.2014 um 17:48 schrieb Panos Kavalagios <[email protected]>: > I don't know where to send it and you might not be the correct person, > but I have a question.
Sure. > Why we keep those 'g' prefixes for all GNU commands? I know it is a > Solaris tradition to distinguish the native implementation of the OS from the > GNU, but is it really needed? The reason is that if you have /opt/csw/bin in front of your path you would cloak the Solaris commands which is bad. > All other systems do not use that distinction. It is really irritating to > have either alias all commands (alias ls gls) or create a symbolic link (ln > -s gfind find) to have something working on all operating systems. Even > Sunfreeware did not provide that prefix for the /usr/local packages of > coreutils, findutils, diffutils etc. When the package is compiled itself it > produces an executable without the 'g'. > > I apologise if my question looks naive and there is an obvious > explanation. I just wish to be able to only add in my PATH /opt/csw/bin, > without having to perform any other extra configuration. For this reason we have symlinks with the usual name without ‚g‘ in /opt/csw/gnu which is shipped by each package. Just prepend that path as documented here: http://www.opencsw.org/manual/for-administrators/setup.html?highlight=gnu#symlinks-in-opt-csw-gnu Best regards — Dago -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896
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