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

[Nicolas Williams]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:21:43PM +0100, Rainer Orth wrote:
> George Vasick writes:
> 
> > > Since this will contain version-specific bin directories which users are
> > > expected to add to their PATH, it shouldn't go below /usr/lib.  Existing
> > > precedent would be /usr/gcc/4.3.
> > 
> > Normally, users would not need to add version specific directories to 
> > their PATH, /usr/bin and /usr/gnu/bin would work just fine in the case 
> > where only one version of gcc is installed.
> 
> I don't buy this: if there were no intention to be able to install
> [...]

I do, at least in your OS/Net example, since your ON nightly(1)
environment must provide a path to the compilers to use.  And people who
build multiple consolidations, and multiple versions of each
consolidation (Solaris 10 updates vs. OpenSolaris/Solaris Next) already
have to have multiple compiler versions installed.

Nico
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