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Old 01-16-2008, 11:16 AM
Richard B. gilbert
 
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Default Re: wrapper for common tools

uat4r wrote:
> Hi All, I have bunch of different versions of generic tools (like gcc,
> gdb, ddd etc) and these tools are compiled for different platforms
> (linux, solaris). I would like to mount all these tools into some
> common place (like /nfs/tools/bin) and have wrapper to pull the latest
> version of the tool for any specific platform. What I can use to
> accomplish this?
> Thanks,
> -UAT
>
>


I don't see that you need a "wrapper" at all.

Create a set of directories /nfs/tools/platform/bin where "platform" is
one of (Linux, solaris_sparc, solaris_x86, macintosh, power_pc. . .
..) and set your path accordingly on each platform.

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