Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 22:54:04 -0800 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) To: mark@grondar.za Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gripe of the week (tm) :-) Message-ID: <199503210654.WAA08178@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199503201818.UAA28034@grunt.grondar.za> (message from Mark Murray on Mon, 20 Mar 1995 20:18:55 %2B0200)
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* Sure. It is possible to go _crazy_ and do what you like with these * symlinks, but life gets awfully messy. Lets just do it _right_. Well, I might be CRAZY (*-_-*) but I thought this, although it might be wrong, was the only way to solve the problem entirely within the X tree. I didn't like having two separate bin dirs, man dirs, etc. It will clutter up my PATH, /etc/manpath.config, /etc/weekly, among other things. * It is very manual. With a clear separation of the two trees, and a _known_ * grey area (app-defaults) (which is kinda-like /etc in that it contains all * your local setups, kluges, preferences etc, no?), surely life will be a lot * easier? Actually the whole lib/ subdirectory and much of include/ is a gray zone. (bin/ and man/ aren't that difficult to separate.) Don't forget that X programs often want to install their own libraries and/or header files, and the imake system just isn't prepared to deal with two sets of these. They think where you install = where you find libs/includes. So you either fix things with symlinks like I said, or as Rod suggested, go the imake config way. The latter is much better and is the "real" solution but it takes time and we need to cooperate with the XFree86/X Consortium people...the former is, well, dirty and "incorrect" but at least gives you the illusion of having a "standard" X tree (very important to do port works) with minimal effort during upgrades. Maintaining the symlink tree isn't all that bad, as "colorls -GR | colorless" can tell me about all the bogus symlinks. For the new files, I just run the setup script again, it will fail when the link is already there. Satoshi
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