On 16/07/2021 16:50, Cameron Katri via freebsd-current 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.
FWIW: In about 20 years of using FreeBSD, my $PATH has always had
/usr/local/bin before /usr/bin and I have never once encountered a
problem from this. If I install something from ports that's already in
the base system, it's invariably because I want to use it in preference
to the base-system version.
David
