Andreas Henriksson writes ("Bug#915955: vm: may embed undesired paths when
built in local environment"):
Cc: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
> You can reproduce this by doing:
> ln -s /bin/rm /usr/local/bin/rm
> ln -s /bin/ls /usr/local/bin/ls
> ln -s /usr/bin/install /usr/local/bin/install
> if ! echo $PATH | grep -q /usr/local/bin ; then export
> PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH ; fi
Thanks for the report.
I'm sorry to say that while I think that this would be nice to fix in
principle, I really don't like your patch. I don't think the appraoch
you suggest is a good one in general.
I think it is a bug that anything tries to hardcode the path but that
this needs to be fixed in one place, in autoconf, rather than by
having every package which uses autoconf override invididual things.
And this is complicated by the sad fact that some programs probably do
need a hardcoded path for some things (for good or bad reasons).
Was this bug report part of an MBF ? If so I think it was ill-advised.
> Even more importantly you want to look at what lintian has to say about
> your package.
Thanks for the hint. I guess I should fix at least some of those but
they dono't seem like crises...
Regards,
Ian.
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