gcc-3.3.2-sd-11.00.depot

Zack Weinberg zack@codesourcery.com
Wed Jun 2 19:07:00 GMT 2004


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

> 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.

That may well be true.  What Russ says is also true: /usr/local/bin
has always been the default installation location for GCC and all
other GNU tools, and that will not change.

> 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.

You appear to be talking about binary packages of GCC which were
provided by some third party.  The GCC project is not responsible for
such packages; complain to whoever made them.

zw



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