On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 13:43 +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: >> Since commit 66b47b4a9dad00e45c049d79966de9a3a1f4d337 >> Author: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> >> Date: Mon Oct 13 15:51:57 2014 -0700 >> >> checkpatch: look for common misspellings >> >> checkpatch.pl dies with >> >> checkpatch.pl: Can't open /path/to/spelling.txt for reading: No such file or >> directory >> >> if it's called through a symlink in /path/to/checkpatch.pl pointing at >> the actual script. >> >> Please fail graciously, and just ignore spelling if you can't find >> spelling.txt. Or better yet, follow the links if you can. > > I agree it should fail better, but I'm also curious. > Why you want to use a symlink?
Simply because I think having $HOME/bin in $PATH and a symlink there is better than the alternatives. I don't want to add scripts to $PATH because there's so much cruft. I don't want to copy checkpatch.pl (and now spelling.txt) because I generally want it to stay up-to-date. I don't want to use an alias because some maintainer scripts would break. I don't want to use a full path because it's tedious, and potentially different on different machines. Reference: http://xkcd.com/1172/ BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
