Charles Levert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -- The % thing is not too portable.
Yes, that's right. But this is a more important objection: > -- Should for some reason /usr/bin/fgrep > be copied elsewhere or symlinked to, it > will fail to set dir=/usr/bin/ anymore. > (That would remain the case if sed were > used instead of the % construct.) Yes. This is why the coding standards say that you have to ship programs that don't care what their names are. > I'm not a big fan of anything else but the wrapper script approach. Neither am I, and that is why I implemented the wrapper scripts in the first place. But they cause the problems mentioned above, so I'm afraid they have to go, at least in the default installation.
