Rainer Orth wrote:
I'm finally done with the changes for some CRs I'd created long ago:
6412893 SUNWonbld should install into /opt/SUNWonbld
6414833 SUNWonbld should use /opt as BASEDIR
6414843 SUNWonbld shouldn't install sgml man pages
6414845 groff reports warnings in SUNWonbld man pages
Both me and my sponsor, Pete Dennis, have done a lot of testing, so we're
reasonably confident that everything is fine. But since this changeset
includes a move of the onbld tools from /opt/onbld to /opt/SUNWonbld,
there's certainly potential for problems.
While I appreciate all the testing and work that has been done and the
fact that the Makefiles look for /opt/onbld and /opt/SUNWonbld I really
don't think this change is worth it. This seems like change for the
sake of complying to the exact letter of some best practice. Is there a
real problem being solved by no longer using the /opt/onbld path ?
Particularly when we are now less likely to use the SUNW prefix for
various (I assume all obvious) reasons.
I'd really like to hear from other ON developers on this.
If we are going to move the content of the on built tools I'd personally
rather the default location was into /usr/bin if at all possible. That
way once I'd bfu'd a machine bfu would be in an "obvious" place.
The change for 6414833 is very valuable though, particularly helpful for
installations with multiple different versions of the package installed
and shared over NFS.
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Darren J Moffat
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