GNU Developer Collection [LSARC/2008/776 FastTrack timeout 01/07/2009]

[George Vasick]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 06:58:57PM +0100, Rainer Orth wrote:
>>> George Vasick writes:
>>>> Actually, we are proposing to to install binutils 2.19 in 
>>>> /usr/compilers/binutils219.  It will be a separate package and not 
>>>> contained in /usr/compilers/gcc432.
>>> Again, my questions about the reasons for that haven't been answered 
>>> yet:
>>>
>>> * Why /usr/compilers at all?  We don't have /usr/webservers or
>>>   /usr/databases.
>>
>> I object to /usr/compilers also.  Might I suggest /usr/lib/compilers
>> instead?
> 
> So why was /usr/compilers chosen instead of /usr/gcc, etc. as we have 
> /usr/apache, /usr/apache2, etc. now?

We choose /usr/compliers because we wanted a central location for all 
compilers, both GCC and Sun Studio.  The Studio team plans to follow 
this convention as well.  We could use /usr/lib/compilers as easily as 
/usr/compilers.  Is there a reason we should avoid /usr/compilers?  I 
see we have things like /usr/apache, /usr/appserver, /usr/jdk, /usr/php, 
and /usr/mysql already in place on solaris.

Thanks,
George