Markus Duft
Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:38:38 -0800
Fabian Groffen wrote: > 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.
yep, sure you're right. maybe my use-case was a little too challenging for chpathtool? i relocated whole prefixes, not single packages. maybe i triggered a problem with this... > > But a backtrace is more than welcome. > eek, yes, i know :) i just need to have some time to get back to testing chpathtool - i did already, but had to do other stuff... >