On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Irek Szczesniak <iszczesn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Irek Szczesniak <iszczesn...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Cedric Blancher
>> <cedric.blanc...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On 27 September 2012 12:50, ольга крыжановская
>>> <olga.kryzhanov...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I would like to collect opinions:
>>>> For those who desperately wish to have grep, od, tr, xargs in libcmd:
>>>> Would it be acceptable to bind these built ins to /opt/ast/bin/grep,
>>>> /opt/ast/bin/od, /opt/ast/bin/tr and /opt/ast/bin/xargs? /opt/ast/bin
>>>> is a special path (controlled at build time via the SH_CMDLIB_DIR cpp
>>>> variable; Solaris uses /usr/ast/bin instead) which can enable built
>>>> ins even if they are not present as files in the file system.
>>>
>>> Yes, this would be acceptable.
>>
>> Yes, this would work for us as well.
>
> On a 2nd thought... is there an API to obtain the value of
> SH_CMDLIB_DIR? Technically it's not mandatory - if these four are
> bound to the path in SH_CMDLIB_DIR then using builtin $name will work,
> too.

And on a 3rd thought: You're asking whether I like to see grep, od, tr
and xargs in libcmd and bound to the virtual path defined per
SH_CMDLIB_DIR, so that if SH_CMDLIB_DIR==/opt/ast/bin then
PATH=/opt/ast/bin:$PATH will enable then, right? That would be
perfect.

Irek
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