On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Bob Proulx wrote:
On what systems is env located in /bin/env? The normal location is in /usr/bin/env. I checked HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, FreeBSD, and various GNU/Linux systems. All had /usr/bin/env. This is counted upon by many scripts using /usr/bin/env as a launcher. I would have said it was a standard but upon a quick search I could not find a reference.
Personally, whenever I package coreutils for my system I prefer to move several basic utilities (env included) to /bin and symlink them from /usr/bin. That way I am safer should I ever have /bin and /usr in separate partitions, and I am still compatible with scripts that use hardcoded paths.
I believe, though, that in the spirit of at least the FHS /bin/env is a very reasonable location, since there could be system/backup scripts that use it and are necessary to restore the system in the case of a disaster.
But all this is more of a packaging issue. I don't think it should be resolved in the coreutils source distribution. Different distributions and platforms may use different locations, and it would be impossible to accomodate them all.
Regards, Theodoros Kalamatianos _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
