Azarah wrote:[Sat Jun 18 2005, 07:23:19AM EDT] > You might however say install all gnuish tools with the 'g' prefix, > and then install wrapper scripts/stubs into say /usr/bin/gnu/ or > /bin/gnu/ (with /usr/bin/gnu/find calling gfind, etc), and portage > just adds this path as the first path to $PATH ... > > This should cover the fact that aliases might not work in all cases, > and is bsd specific implementation.
That would actually cause a lot of problems because the PATH would be inherited by configure and/or make. The result is that programs get GNU tools when they are built, but BSD tools at run-time. I can only imagine that causing a lot of confusion. Regards, Aron -- Aron Griffis Gentoo Linux Developer
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