Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 11:50:04 -0400 From: Cameron Katri via freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PATH: /usr/local before or after /usr ? Message-ID: <20210716155004.d2qiciqkipmegs3j@FreeBSDY540> In-Reply-To: <CAOtMX2g3G0nFCXGoWo14d1iwOisBUBAom6=v_gTHfJOoT3mJdw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAOtMX2g3G0nFCXGoWo14d1iwOisBUBAom6=v_gTHfJOoT3mJdw@mail.gmail.com>
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--lm36po4aimq2unay Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 09:01:49AM -0600, Alan Somers wrote: > FreeBSD has always placed /usr/local/X after /usr/X in the default PATH. > AFAICT that convention began with SVN revision 37 "Initial import of 386B= SD > 0.1 othersrc/etc". Why is that? It would make sense to me that > /usr/local/X should come first. That way programs installed from ports c= an > override FreeBSD's defaults. Is there a good reason for this convention, > or is it just inertia? The biggest example I can think of this being a problem is having binutils installed, it will cause any calls to elftoolchain or llvm-binutils to go to GNU binutils which is platform specific, so cross compiling, or LTO could be broken because of using GNU binutils which don't support cross compiling or LTO. - Cameron Katri > -Alan --=20 Cameron Katri Email: me@cameronkatri.com PGP Fingerprint: 7D3B36CEA40FCC2181FB6DCDBAFFD97826540F1C --lm36po4aimq2unay Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCAAdFiEEfTs2zqQPzCGB+23Nuv/ZeCZUDxwFAmDxqqwACgkQuv/ZeCZU Dxy7bgf7Be69zLgkwiKAboRESi7AY7gDQoJvilWRonc3fEOrfZ/YacajrcVQsFtP XfKbZHF+EjJIFK3POeD++S6nJZdyhzhjRSs3XpBftJY1EmeojR1sMAa7vIl1d7mx Gg0ac7zZWI2CGr+2Pw8Z9dt06g+skbQ9v3eu3pTGtZw8APNYbYrfXYOWckmnXIAw bMrohjfl6NOToY+/HBddaHZmN9g3mxgjqiJWWjtz2c4hDUebsgLRGMqfjoodh2T2 ledB9PJwhR8yzebButLhpQh9bajdZYaJuFv5zxBlFsNd2TgDETb6gclcP+2shUAc lWj2nzVoVOWHm/1tvpQgETcNLXcKdw== =a1Uw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lm36po4aimq2unay--
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