From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Discussion: alternative compatible utilities
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:45:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050621184542.GK9452@kaf.zko.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1119093799.11254.46.camel@lycan.lan>
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Azarah wrote:[Sat Jun 18 2005, 07:23:19AM EDT]
> You might however say install all gnuish tools with the 'g' prefix,
> and then install wrapper scripts/stubs into say /usr/bin/gnu/ or
> /bin/gnu/ (with /usr/bin/gnu/find calling gfind, etc), and portage
> just adds this path as the first path to $PATH ...
>
> This should cover the fact that aliases might not work in all cases,
> and is bsd specific implementation.
That would actually cause a lot of problems because the PATH would be
inherited by configure and/or make. The result is that programs get
GNU tools when they are built, but BSD tools at run-time. I can only
imagine that causing a lot of confusion.
Regards,
Aron
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Aron Griffis
Gentoo Linux Developer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-21 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-16 5:57 [gentoo-dev] Discussion: alternative compatible utilities Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-06-16 8:26 ` Luca Barbato
2005-06-16 11:18 ` Dan Meltzer
2005-06-17 2:32 ` Aron Griffis
2005-06-17 14:05 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-06-18 11:23 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-06-21 18:45 ` Aron Griffis [this message]
2005-07-05 10:37 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-06-21 18:42 ` Aron Griffis
2005-06-21 18:57 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-06-18 3:29 ` Grant Goodyear
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2005-06-16 21:26 Alec Warner
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