On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:25:46PM -0800, Douglas Walls wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > >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). > > Yes. You'll find the case sponsor announced ... > > "Based on the valuable feedback, the two projects have agreed not to > co-locate their files under /usr/compilers."
That says nothing as to why have one version of the bundled compilers but N versions of gcc. > >Our build machines have multiple versions of Sun Studio installed. Why > >would one not want the this case to allow the same??? > > It does allow the same ... this case says: Well, OK, so other versions will be installed in /opt as unbundled products. Weird. That's not what we've done with other parts of the system, but I don't mind too much. > 4. Technical Description: > 4.1. Details: > > - The design of the Sun compilers precludes just installing > them into /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc. without significant But only the /usr/bin parts are public interfaces, right? If so then we only need /usr/lib/compilers + links from /usr/bin into it.
