On 21 November 2012 13:45, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
<joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net> wrote:
> On 11/20/2012 11:51 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>
>> Don't install gdc into the system directories; put it in its own tree,
>> say, /usr/src/gdc/{bin,include,...}, then add a symlink from
>> /usr/bin/gdc -> /usr/src/gdc/bin/gdc. Don't include /usr/src/gdc in your
>> $PATH, but just let the symlink do its job.
>
>
> Well, I'd already put it in /opt/gdc (since there's no uninstall option it
> feels dangerous to put it anywhere else), but I had added /opt/gdc/bin to
> the path -- which as you say is the problem.
>There's an uninstall option, it's just not in the top make tree. > Rather than putting in symlinks, I decided to tweak the script which adds > stuff in /opt to $PATH -- adding it to the end rather than the beginning. > It works, because there's no overlap between what's in /opt and what's > elsewhere in the system, bar these C/C++ instances -- and I don't want to > use them. > > I was just curious whether having them was actually necessary for the GDC > install, or whether they could be discarded as byproducts, and whether there > was a way to do that at make install time ... cd gcc && make d.install-common; make d.install-man; cd ../ && make install-target-libphobos; Regards -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
