Use of /usr/ccs/bin on Solaris

[Martin Buchholz]

I agree that configure should not mess with user's PATH and should
"auto-find" programs in /usr/ccs/bin only as a last resort.

It would be reasonable, when configure fails on Solaris, to notice that the
user does not have /usr/ccs/bin on PATH and suggest appending.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:31 AM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com>
wrote:

> On 4/03/2015 6:24 PM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>
>> At least when we were building on Solaris 10 I think we needed to add
>> that to be sure to get the right tools. It might not be needed on
>> Solaris 11.
>>
>
> It's not needed on Solaris 10 if you already have the right tools in your
> path. :( Comment suggests it was needed because the wrong tools were being
> found in someone's path. Augmenting the path should be the last resort
> though, not the first.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>
>  /Erik
>>
>> On 2015-03-04 01:12, David Holmes wrote:
>>
>>> toolchain.m4 prepends /usr/ccs/bin to the PATH on Solaris, which is a
>>> bad thing if you already have your path set up to the correct
>>> toolchain! I expect there is some history here, but it seems wrong to me.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>>
>>
>>