[haiku-development] Re: RFC: /usr symlink?
- From: Paul Davey <plmdvy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:45:58 +1300
Upstream wont accept patches to change the shebang lines because they
have to be /usr/bin/env on other systems. The real problem here is
actually that unix shebang line handling is broken and the only nearly
portable hack that helps fix it lives in /usr/bin not /bin. If we can
make the runtime loader accept /usr/bin/env and use /bin/env this will
likely go away pretty quickly.
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:27 PM, scottmc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Alexander von Gluck IV
> <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Anyone see any issues adding a /usr symlink to the default image?
>>
>> LLVM has /usr/bin/env at the top of quite a few build scripts,
>> in the past i've solved the issue by checking for /usr and
>> symlinking it to /boot/system if it doesn't exist.
>>
>> Adding a /usr symlink is definitely a workaround, but it likely
>> will make Linux ports to Haiku go more smoothly (and we aren't
>> really "going linux" by just adding a symlink.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> As a refresher, here is / as it stands today:
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>> bin -> /boot/system/bin
>> boot
>> dev
>> etc > /boot/system/settings/etc
>> Haiku -> /boot
>> packages -> /boot/system/package-links
>> system -> /boot/system
>> tmp -> /boot/system/cache/tmp
>> var -> /boot/system/var
>>
>> -- Alex
>>
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> -1 from me.
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> This reminds me of that old joke where Germany agrees to switch the EU to
> have English as the official language, only to ask them to make a simple
> change of using K in place of C, it continues until the remaining language
> is basically German. No. We don't want to turn Haiku into Linux.
>
> 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. No, leave it as is and send patches upstream.
>
> -scottmc
>
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