Move gdb from /usr/sfw/bin to /usr/bin [PSARC/2007/630 Self Review]

[Joseph Kowalski]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 02/11/2007, Garrett D'Amore <gdamore at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> As an aside, has gcc already moved to /usr/bin?
>>
>> One nagging thought about moving the compilers to /usr/bin is that it
>> seems to give a level of precedence to the GNU compilers and tools that
>> is higher than we offer for our *own* tools (Studio).
>>
>> I.e. if gdb and gcc are in /usr/bin, then why not dbx and cc?
>>
>> I realize that this may not be the place to fully explore the idea of
>> bundling Studio, but I'd hate for other parties to miscontrue this
>> action as meaning our own Studio tools were "2nd class" on Solaris systems.
>>     
>
> One could argue that as long as Sun Studio isn't redistributable and
> isn't open source (like was promised 2 years ago by Schwartz) it is a
> second class citizen in the OpenSolaris community. I certainly feel
> like one when I'm using it sometimes (i.e. tarballs don't always
> include latest patches, etc.).
>   
Which argues for Sun Studio being properly included in Solaris, even it 
it is
not provided on OpenSolaris.

Maybe I'm biased, but links such as /usr/bin/java -> ../jdk/<mummble> would
be appropriate.  This seems to work well for the DEVX releases becasue
Sun Studio is bundled.  Not so well for a vanilla Express.

- jek3