RE: gcc-3.3.2-sd-11.00.depot

["Moore, Jerry C" <jerry dot c dot moore at boeing dot com>]

I am afraid you are wrong.
/usr/local/bin has always been reserved for other
local scripts etc that the Sysadmin and users use.
And that is true of every site I have worked at. Not
just this one.
The new location of /usr/local/bin for gcc has changed 
recently since I had to go back to an older version 
of gcc that installs in /opt/gcc.
Third party software normally is always installed
in /opt. That is the standard. Perl was fixed back
to /opt. gcc location should be also.



Jerry Moore
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
Work 972-659-3226
Mobile 214-868-6953
jerry.c.moore@boeing.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Russ Allbery [mailto:rra@stanford.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 7:30 PM
To: Moore, Jerry C
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: gcc-3.3.2-sd-11.00.depot


Moore, Jerry C <jerry.c.moore@boeing.com> writes:

> gcc needs to go in /opt not /usr/local/bin.

> /usr/local/bin is reserved for sysadmin scripts etc.

That may be true at your site.  That's not true universally.
/usr/local/bin is the default installation location of all GNU software
and has been for years; this is unlikely to change.

If you want to install GCC into a different location, this is as simple as
providing the --prefix argument to configure when compiling it, as with
most GNU software.  Most of us who maintain large local software
installations have automated this process with wrapper scripts around
software builds.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>