Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:52:52 -0500 From: Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Latest round of bsd.*.mk changes Message-ID: <20040206155252.GG66258@hal9000.halplant.com> In-Reply-To: <20040206062100.GB29898@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <1075871381.76993.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040206062100.GB29898@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> said... > Do we assume the builder has zero $PATH at all? As suitably careful/paranoid scripters, we assume that the user has a $PATH and that it contains other versions of basic commands which behave differently in subtle ways which break stuff and which come before the ones we expect. The alternative is the either use a fixed $PATH (or keep prepending), which runs the risk of not working on systems where things have been moved to unusual places and removes the ability to globally redefine single commands. It's also a nice way to bundle specific invocations such as the aforementioned mkdir -p. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 |
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