Subject: Re: compat_ultrix
To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@isds.Duke.EDU>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-pmax
Date: 02/05/1996 19:24:41
On Mon, 5 Feb 1996 21:04:51 -0500 (EST)
Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@isds.Duke.EDU> wrote:
>
> Since we're moving to the /emul setup that other ports use, I was
> wondering how its path searching works. Is there a description
> someplace of exactly how path searching changes when /emul/ultrix is
> populated? Is there any way to force the system to search the
> /emul/ultrix tree first for everything? I'd assumed that running
> commands wrapped in /emul/ultrix/bin/sh would force the system to
> search /emul/ultrix first for commands, but this doesn't seem to be
> true. What I'm really after is how to avoid hacking at every single
> shell script I've got (like the ones that launch mathematica, for
> example) that has paths hardcoded into it...
When running an Ultrix executable, /emul/ultrix will be checked first for
everything. (depending on how many syscalls it's used in, that is...)
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