Use of /usr/ccs/bin on Solaris

[David Holmes]

On 7/03/2015 12:50 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> 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?

Yes if not for that fact that there seems to have been an explicit 
reason for pre-pending in the first place. But if noone can recall what 
that was ...

Thanks,
David

> /Magnus