Torrey McMahon wrote: > I might be asking a lot here but it would be nice if there was some > CLI/GUI widget that lists all of the relevant versions and lets a user > select the one they want to be their preferred version. Netbeans has > something like that last I checked though it's product specific.
This is certainly a very reasonable thing to ask. But we don't yet have any distribution with more than one version bundled. So we decided to defer this until we got more user feedback. The argument against this is that the normal UNIX way of doing this is to use your PATH to select a customized search order if you are not happy with the default search order. If you put /usr/compilers/XXXX/bin (or whatever) in your path before /usr/bin, then you can select which compiler you want to be the "default" compiler. This works for command-line selection. Controlling which compiler is seen by a configure script that looks stright at /usr/bin/cc is a harder problem, and requires some sort of package change. In my mind, I am hoping we can get by with telling users to use the package manager to uninstall the "sunstudioXXXXlinks" package, and install a different, non-default "XXXXlinks" package to control which symlinks they want in /usr/bin. But that's still very tentative at this point. --chris
