From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 5 02:03:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA11066 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 02:03:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA10930 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 02:02:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id TAA00163; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 19:04:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199806050904.TAA00163@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: lorder problem: aout vs. elf In-Reply-To: <19980605125523.A28805@nagual.pp.ru> from "[______ ______]" at "Jun 5, 98 12:55:23 pm" To: ache@nagual.pp.ru (=?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?=) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 19:04:44 +1000 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, peter@netplex.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [______ ______] wrote: > Even if this lines will be deleted, there is no /usr/libexec/aout in the > default PATH anycase, only /usr/bin is there. It means that users can't > call f.e. 'size' or 'strings' now. Since default PATH is hardcoded as > #define in paths.h, no simple changes possible (in some cases login.conf > or csh.cshrc PATH settings tricks are not desired). NetBSD uses scripts that use ${NM} and have PATH=/bin:/usr/bin export PATH as a fallback in case NM doesn't evaluate to anything sensible. This style allows the build process to define which nm it needs. This could be applied to ports too. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message