[openbeos] Re: bison and other build issues

"Andrew Bachmann" <shatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jérôme Duval <korli@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
 ...
> > Some of the bin utilities i checked in  are usually
> > configured to find their 
> > system data files in a directory /usr/local/share.
> > What should we do ? 
> > - /share and /boot/beos/share 
> >     (need to add a /share link to the root ...)
> > - /etc and /boot/beos/etc 
> >     (not a common place but why not)
> > - another directory ?
> 
> I have no /boot/beos/share but I do have both 
> /boot/home/config/etc and /boot/home/config/share, 
> which would lead me to believe that we should
> have a /boot/beos/share separate from /boot/beos/etc.

FWIW, BeOS R5 doesn't have /boot/home/config/share.
It's added by some 3'rd party apps.

BTW, what's the reason for this semantical overlap?:

/share and 
/usr   ("unix shared resources" IIRC)

I fear that if we start supporting all of the unix root folders 
our system will end up as cluttered as Linux. On the other
hand, as the root is not visible from Tracker or from 
apps using the blessed Open/Save filepanels it's not
necessarily a big problem. Ported apps that use some
filepanel of their own would not hide a messy root though,
and I think it's a good idea to avoid such a situation.

/Jonas Sundström.               www.kirilla.com

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