On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 9:12 PM, DJ Lucas <d...@linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > On 10/19/2012 12:37 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >> <rant> I'm into problems because the make files have hard coded paths >> into make files. /usr/bin/head (which is in /bin) and /bin/touch (which >> is in /usr/bin/touch). What are these guys thinking? why can't they >> use the PATH? </rant> > Yes, the problem and the current fix have been there since Tushar put > the JDK in the book back at 1.4.2 IIRC. This will not likely be fixed in > OpenJDK-7 but is already done in 8 IIRC. >
It is good if they plan to do it for V8. I believe they hard coded the paths so as to only used system programs instead of any "incompatible" programs that a user may have in their PATH. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:tus...@linuxfromscratch.org http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
