Subject: Re: Overriding _PATH_mumble
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/04/2000 16:57:57
>>>Hubert inquired about pulling up rev 1.5 usr.bin/xinstall/pathnames.h,
>>>viz. "Allow overriding _PATH_STRIP":
>>>Very few other pathnames.h files allow this.
>>>Is this the right thing? Should they all be converted
>>>en masse?
>>
>> what is the domain of "they all"?
>> if a header file is in /usr/include, i don't think so
>> (we should put no user-tweakable #ifdef).
>Sorry, userland. i.e. /usr/src/{usr.bin,bin}/*/pathnames.h
(just a personal opinion) i don't think it is a genric requirement
to override it. i think we can just modify usr.bin/xinstall/pathnames.h
as a special case....
itojun