Use of /usr/ccs/bin on Solaris

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2015-03-04 22:03, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> 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.

I have opened https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8074557.

Adding a warning to failed configure on Solaris due to missing build 
tools that presumably resides in /usr/ccs/bin seems like quite a lot of 
work.

I suggest the following:
Instead of prepending, append /usr/ccs/bin, so any binaries in the 
user's specified PATH are picked first. This will allow a properly set 
PATH to function, but it will still provide the "best effort" approach 
of configure to look in "well-known locations" for tools.

Does that seem like an acceptable solution?

/Magnus