On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Alasdair Lumsden <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gordon, > >> And that brings up another question: Do we want to remove >> /usr/local from the search paths as was done for Solaris? >> I wonder why this was done? Anyone know? >> Do we want to continue this change? > > I think it's probably to keep software built with cmake relatively "clean", > sunfreeware.com and friends deposit their stuff in /usr/local, and they for > example use their own libgcc etc. It wouldn't be desirable for software being > built with a system gcc to pick up objects linked with a non-system gcc. > > Since users can explicitly add /usr/local as a search path manually if they > need to, I think it's safe to keep it.
This might not have been clear, but the search path changes are not $PATH or anything like that, but (apparently) places cmake will look for things. Usually looking lots of places is a good thing:) That's why I asked about its removal. > If you're happy to go ahead, I'll do the commit now. I've imported the patch > set into my oi-build workspace. Yeah, I think it's OK as is. Just wish we knew why that stuff was changed. Ya know, it's permitted to have a little text at the top of a patch file, saying why you're doing this! grrr... (though I'm probably guilty too:) Gordon _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
