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

[Nicolas Williams]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:42:47PM -0800, Danek Duvall wrote:
> 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.

Oh, silly me, I thought that because LSARC/2008/776 proposed to deliver
GNU compilers into /usr/compilers/gcc<version> that this one would too.
I guess I have to read the rest of this thread (or slink away -- it
seems daunting).

Our build machines have multiple versions of Sun Studio installed.  Why
would one not want the this case to allow the same???

Nico
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