[haiku-development] Re: RFC: /usr symlink?
- From: Donn Cave <donn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 00:17:12 -0700 (PDT)
> You add a symlink from /usr to something, then when a configure script
> tries to detect /usr it finds it and then starts making all sorts of other
> assumptions.
For what it's worth, I can't recall that I've seen a configure script
do that. If I understand what you mean.
I can't think of any real problems with /usr -> /boot/system, but it seems
sort of misleading. I mean, if /boot/system really is conceived as more or
less the equivalent of /usr on UNIX, then I guess it's fair, but ... is that
really what you want to say? or would it worth the trouble to set up a path that
really specifically leads to /boot/system/bin/env and makes the intention
less ambiguous. Like
mkdir -p /boot/usr/bin
ln -s /boot/system/bin/env /boot/usr/bin/
ln -s /boot/usr /
That makes it pretty clear why there's a /usr, and if nothing else it might
mean slightly fewer requests for /usr/include, etc.
Donn
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