On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 08:56:26PM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
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>I think the --program-prefix=g approach is the most reasonable, because
>similar to "uname", other things can break, too. I've now added a
>package option "with_prefix" (with default value "yes") which if enabled
>uses --program-prefix=g. Thanks for the feedback.
This works, but on non-Linux systems still leaves problems where the RPM
program uses options to programs line chown, chmod, chgrp, and cp which
aren't understood by the host system. I ran into this on FreeBSD after
updating the coreutils, and did a Crude Hack(tm) making some symlinks to
the non-g-prefix names in %{l_prefix}/bin so they would be seen.
This brings me back to my contention that the gnu-ish versions of chown,
chmod, chgrp, cp, and probably install, belong in %{l_prefix}/lib/openpkg,
and that the corresponding RPM macros reference these programs.
One way to do this that might help in trimming the size of the bootstrap
package as well would be to build them using the ``busybox'' code that's
used in many embedded Linux systems. I'm not sure how busybox ports to
non-Linux systems, but my guess is that it's not difficult. It's designed
for static linking, is quite small by comparison, and should provide the
needed programs.
Bill
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