Bundled Compiler Collection [LSARC/2009/017 FastTrack timeout 01/21/2009]

[Danek Duvall]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:34:22PM -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:16:54PM -0800, Danek Duvall wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:46:11AM -0800, Douglas Walls wrote:
> > 
> > > Ah, yes thanks for that clarification.  /usr/compilers has such public
> > > interfaces, i.e. a bin, lib and man directory intended to be placed in 
> > > $PATH and $MANPATH when necessary to override whatever the current
> > > defaults are in /usr/bin /usr/man.
> > 
> > But if you're putting links for everything in /usr/bin and /usr/share/man,
> > and there is only the single version, then why would you set PATH and
> > MANPATH?
> 
> To pick one from multiple versions.  Like we do with Perl5, say.

Yes, but to quote from the revised fast-track:

    There will not be multiple versions, there will only be one set of
    bundled compilers.

Danek