[haiku-development] Re: Removing /boot/common
- From: scottmc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 13:19:02 -0700
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
Keep in mind that /boot/common was added to Haiku it wasn't in BeOS, so
there's a very good change that any software that gets broken by this is
still fresh enough that it can just be fixed/recompiled. IIRC there's been
no promise to be binary compatible with previous versions of Haiku pre-R1.
-scottmc
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