Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 10:11:41 -0600 From: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> To: me@cameronkatri.com Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PATH: /usr/local before or after /usr ? Message-ID: <CAOtMX2goig40oef3XEcM=Pu5-9tF4iwDVbTxA=FvYVaaFk0L3A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20210716155004.d2qiciqkipmegs3j@FreeBSDY540> References: <CAOtMX2g3G0nFCXGoWo14d1iwOisBUBAom6=v_gTHfJOoT3mJdw@mail.gmail.com> <20210716155004.d2qiciqkipmegs3j@FreeBSDY540>
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--0000000000007a0e3805c73fd860 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 9:54 AM Cameron Katri via freebsd-current < freebsd-current@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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 > 386BSD > > 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 > can > > 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 > Ugh, that's a good example. I was thinking more about interactive programs, like say /usr/bin/vi vs editors/vim. Hypothetically how would one solve the conflict if /usr/local/bin came before /usr/bin ? Install binutils's binaries to /usr/local/libexec/binutils/ ? But a lot of ports depend on binutils. That would be a ton of ports to update. BTW my motivation for this thread is a new replacement for gstat that I'm working on. I would like to name it "gstat", but if /usr/sbin must come before /usr/local/sbin, then that won't be a very helpful name. -Alan --0000000000007a0e3805c73fd860--
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