On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 01:02:06PM -0800, David.Ford at Sun.COM wrote: > /usr/bin links are proposed not for multiple versions, but to avoid > re-architecting Sun Studio in the short term. Our compilers and dbx find > other files via relative paths within the directory structure.
Interesting. That should be an easy fix, no? > We do not > want to impose our present directory structure on /usr. We intend to > re-architect at some future time, but until then, symlinks in /usr are > our answer. So put the compilers in /usr/lib/compilers, and make /usr/lib/compilers directory and structure beneath not-a-public-interface. > Given that, the name of the directory we actually install in is almost > irrelevant. We just want something descriptive to appear with "ls /usr". I'd rather *nothing* specific to this case show up in "ls /usr". I think that's the right answer. Nico --
