[haiku-development] Re: AddSymlinkToHaikuImage

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:57:23 +0200

On 2011-06-02 at 02:00:39 [+0200], Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 19:26, scottmc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I copied this line from a previous OptionalPacakges version to attempt
> > to put FRiSS in the Desktop applets menu, but it seems I missed.  What
> > would be the proper format for this rule?
> >
> > Here's what I put in in r41862:
> > AddSymlinkToHaikuImage home config be Desktop\ applets
> >
> > Which I copied from:
> > http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/build/jam/OptionalPackages?rev=41855
> > line 943
> 
> I'm not sure why escaping the space doesn't work ... HaikuImage even uses 
> it.
> http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/build/jam/HaikuImage?rev=41855#L366
> 
> However, this works:
> 
>         AddSymlinkToHaikuImage home config be "Desktop applets"
>             : /boot/apps/FRiSS/FRiSS ;
> 
> As well as this:
> 
>         AddSymlinkToHaikuImage home config be Desktop\ applets
>             : /boot/apps/FRiSS/FRiSS : FRiSS ;

That's indeed weird, since this last version should behave exactly the same 
after 
it extracts the link name. With a bit of debug output I'm sure this riddle can 
be 
solved.

CU, Ingo

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