suggestion for toolchain to have its own directories

[Sid]

Any drastic change would have to be done in the head branch.

What about keeping ports' compilers as they are, by not using /usr/local/toolchain/* at all.

Then going with the directory for the base system. For instance: /usr/toolchain/bin/, /usr/toolchain/sbin/, and /usr/toolchain/lib/ for shared files. Then using /usr/toolchain/clang/ and /usr/toolchain/gcc/ for specifically needed files? of course the directory name can be abbreviated or otherwise shortened. This suggestion is kind of like the include/ directories. If that's more difficult then, I'll redact my argument. In a way it should be more organized. However, in another way, perhaps it is more upkeep, which I intended to propose the opposite effect.

Fri Jun 30 21:13:32 UTC 2017, Mark Millard <markmi at dsl-only.net> wrote:
>There is some commonality. Both contexts are based on
>earlier Unix and Unix-like hierarchies. And the
>commonality helps with making ports and such easier
>to support as an example. The types of systems are not
>completely independent.


>Lots of tools and such are based on knowing current
>placements and general properties of the hierarchies.
>Reorganizations are a big deal and do not happen
>often.

>It is also messy for ports to organize things differently
>than upstream does. So things like lang/gcc7-devel are
>unlikely to go to the effort of being significantly
>different when the commonality covers most of the
>placements already (at least for default configurations).

Sat Jul 1 10:01:29 UTC 2017, David Chisnall <theraven at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>Debian does something like this, and it’s a huge pain to work with.  The problem is that toolchains are not self-contained >monolithic components (though gcc likes to pretend that they are).  For example, we want gcc and clang to use the same >linker, the same C and C++ standard library implementations, and the same system headers, irrespective of the compiler >version.  Things that actually are private to a compiler are in separate directories (see /usr/lib/clang, for example).

>David