[haiku-development] Re: RFC: /usr symlink?
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:44:56 +0200
On 14/10/2013 12:36, Christoph Thompson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm surprised that no one pointed it out to the obvious and correct fix for
> this sort of situation instead
> of taking the easy route and just adding a symlink or using a hack in the
> runtime loader. In the build
> system of the software (here LLVM) the shell scripts must be changed to be
> ".in" files which are
> processed at build time to generate (usually with 'sed') the final script
> to be installed with the adequate
> shebang line for the system for which LLVM is being built. If you do it
> this way, I don't see any (good)
> reason why upstream won't accept the patches.
>
What makes you think we didn't try?
The problem is that sometimes either some projects are just a bunch of
python/perl/whatever scripts that don't use autofools, or that the
developers don't care about weird systems and just incorrectly say "fix
your OS".
François.
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