On Thursday 08 February 2007 20:40, steve crosby wrote:
> On 2/9/07, LFS Trac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > #1951: gzip-1.3.11
> > ------------------------------------------+------------------------------
> >--- Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Type: enhancement |
> > Status: assigned Priority: normal |
> > Milestone: 6.3
> > Component: Book | Version: SVN
> > Severity: normal | Resolution:
> > Keywords: |
> > ------------------------------------------+------------------------------
> >--- Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >
> > Because of the change of some utilities from hardlinks to actual
> > binaries as detailed above, our instructions need to change:
>
> FYI: (would update trac ticket direct, but haven't the spare time to
> resiter username etc)
>
> The change to "actual binaries" are really just shell script wrappers
> - and they all add the following to the start of each script
>
> PATH="${GZIP_BINDIR-'/usr/bin'}:$PATH"; export PATH
>
> and then call gzip with the appropriate command line options. since we
> pass prefix=/usr, the make install portion adds the /usr/bin, even
> though we then move gzip to /bin.
>
> Because /bin is likely to still be in the path this won't *break*
> anything, but should be fixed anyway, if only to prevent unexpected
> behaviour is someone places a malicious gzip in the /usr/bin directory
> - a sed on the Makefile perhaps?
Well, we can fine tune the installation of the files. We could:
./configure --prefix='' --datarootdir=/usr/share
make
make check
make install
mv -v /bin/{gzexe,zcmp,zdiff,zegrep,zfgrep,zforce,zgrep,zless,zmore,znew}
/usr/bin
That installs gzip, gunzip and zcat in /bin, the other binaries in /usr/bin
and all the docs in /usr/share. It also results in the following headers in
the shell script wrappers:
PATH="${GZIP_BINDIR-'/bin'}:$PATH"; export PATH
I personally think that's much cleaner than `sed'ing makefiles and the like.
What do you think?
Matt.
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