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
