On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:50:13PM -0800, Douglas Walls wrote:
> - The design of the Sun compilers precludes just installing
> them into /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc. without significant
> redesign.
Could you talk about that briefly? I'm guessing that you assume that an
executable can find things by looking at its realpath (or equivalent) and
fetching ../lib/<something>, and that putting all those <something>s into
/usr/lib would be messy, but perhaps there's something else going on.
What would be the work involved to fix that, perhaps even just noting that
when the executable is in /usr/bin, the auxiliary bits can be found in
/usr/lib/suncc (or whatever). Not for this case, perhaps, but for a future
update of the bundled compilers.
> We need a location into which to install the
> compiler components, with symlinks to those components
> installed in /usr/bin and /usr/share/man. The delivery will
> install the bundled compiler collection components into
> /usr/compilers/{bin,lib,...},
Why /usr/compilers, then, rather than something under /usr/lib/<mumble>?
And the man pages should be able to go directly in /usr/share/man, no?
Danek
