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

[Danek Duvall]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:34:43AM -0800, Chris Quenelle wrote:

> The one-pager also describes a separate package for the symlinks.

Ah, sorry; I missed that.

> The existing unbundled SSX in OpenSolaris today doesn't have a separate
> package for the links, but it should.

Please file a bug on defect.opensolaris.org, under
Distribution/opensolaris/packaging.

> One reason the user might want to add /usr/compilers/bin to their search
> path, is if they are on a shared machine that has a different set of
> links installed in /usr/bin.  You can choose to use the bundled
> compilers, even if the links are not present.  Presumably if they are on
> their own machine they could just install the links package that they
> want.  But if they need to control the compiler selection differently for
> different projects, on their own machine, they still might want to have
> unbundled /usr/bin links and put /usr/compilers/bin on their search path
> at certain times.

Couldn't they just set their path to have /opt/xxx/bin before /usr/bin to
use one of however many unbundled copies they have?  That would allow
/usr/bin to be the path to the bundled compilers all the time.

Danek