/opt/langtools

[Ken Penland_1]

One of our DBAs is asking me a question and I dont know the answer to, so I am seeking the wisdom of the masses. One of our HPUX 11.11 boxes seems to be missing the /opt/langtools directory. He believes that an application or patch is what puts this directory out there. I always thought that this directory came with the default load of the operating system but don't currently have a way to test this. Does anyone know where this directory comes from?

Basically we need to get it back on this system, if it isnt from a patch that we can just install, would it be safe to just tar it up from another system and copy it over?

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

The is installed when a development system such as ANSI/C is installed. The directory contains the general set of tools such as lex, yacc, gdb, ... that are used with a variety of development packages. Unless someone deleted that directory you need to install something like aCC, ANSI/C, FORTRAN, ... to populate the directory.

[Patrick Wallek]

I believe that this comes from the ANSI C or ANSI C++ bundles.

You can check for any packages on any other systems that utilize the /opt/langtool by doing:

# swlist -l file | grep langtool

[James R. Ferguson]

Ken:

No, this is not a default directory. Installation of the Ansii C compiler will create the directory.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Jeff_Traigle]

I just looked at a couple of our boxes. One has it. The other doesn't. The one that has it has the ANSI C compiler installed. Perhaps that's what /opt/lnagtools is part of. The ANSI C compiler was required at one point (I assume it still is) to relink some libraries after Oracle patches were installed.

[Ken Penland_1]

That clears it up, thank you everyone for your quick responses!