[haiku-development] Re: Path-relocatable software and assigns?
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:19:02 +0200
On 2009-04-13 at 13:48:37 [+0200], Adrien <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Do you think an assign equivalent would be a worthy addition to
> > > Haiku?
> >
> > Not sure. They sound fun, but I don't see many applications for them
> > ATM besides the package installation, for which I'd favor exploring
> > the package FS idea first.
>
> Actually they are used for many things in amigaOS. The "assign add"
> is particularly powerful, it is used for the path, but also for include
> search, so you put all the dirs where you have .h files in a single
> INCLUDES: assign. This avoids very long messy gcc command lines :)
For both purposes there already exist environmental variables. So that
wouldn't be a reason to introduce them at least.
CU, Ingo
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