[haiku-development] Re: Removing /boot/common

  • From: Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 21:00:48 +0200

On 2013-10-04 at 19:34:43 [+0200], John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> I'm a bit late to this discussion, but, won't this break binaries that
> specify /boot/common instead of using the B_COMMON_DIRECTORY and
> friends paths or how does that work?

Yes, software that uses a fixed path pointing to /boot/common will no 
longer work. Then again, that software is conceptually broken anyway, as 
the precise reason for having find_directory() is to avoid problems when 
directories move around.

cheers,
        Oliver

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