Fabian Groffen
Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:31:03 -0800
On 10-11-2009 09:36:58 +0100, Markus Duft wrote: > and there are additional problems with chpathtool on some platforms. i > investigated the whole thing a while ago, since i thought it would be > great to (instead of distributing a whole big /opt/gentoo on windows) > distribute my gentoo prefix installations split into binpkgs, where the > user can decide which to install (much like cygwin does it). i back then > also thought about letting the user decide where to install, thats why i > was looking at chpathtool. > > however, the _only_ case where i had real success in changing EPREFIX, > is when the new EPREFIX has the _exact_ same length as the old one. > seems there is more work to be done one this (and: NO. it was not > windows' fault (it most of the time is, i know), since i tried all this > on linux ;p)
Weird, it worked on Solaris and Darwin for sure like a charm. Anyway, this doesn't prevent you from using binpkgs, since you can simply use the same offset, and then chpathtool isn't called at all. But a backtrace is more than welcome. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level