On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:27:14AM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > > An standalone executable works, but I can't see why would you > > want to set your CWD to /usr/bin. It happens many times to me to > > That's what the original poster wanted. Don't ask me why, I'm a big > proponent of letting people shoot themselves in the foot if they so > desire ;-)
I see. > > create /usr/local/myapp, and do ln -s /usr/local/myapp/bin/* > > /usr/local/bin/, which is when my script works (to find > > /usr/local/myapp perhaps). > > Ok, I concede. Your readlink is indeed better. There, happy now? :-) Not quite happy. I hope if you had comments on my last note, about hard-wiring paths in configure time. It's really a big question for me, where to hard wire paths? I'm to write a suite of Python scripts for managing course material here in U of T, and I don't want to go through all that autoconf stuff. Well, I can go by just hard-wiring /etc/mypackage and ~/.mypackage/. > > > people who alias 'which' to something else deserve what they get ;-) > > > > What do you do when redhat does that? > > Cheap shot, but ... switch to debian? ;-) Oh No! I'm enjoying running Rawhide. Having a fragile system is not so bad for development. (I reminded myself of under-development countries ;) ). > > PS. Perhaps it's too soon, but: "Everybody, come to Ottawa Linux > > Symposium '2004 http://www.linuxsymposium/. It's a great event". > > Oh, I'll be there, you can count on it. I decided not to go to > linux.conf.au even though my paper was accepted to be extra certain > I'll make it to OLS. See you there :-) Pretty far AU. So, waiting for you on the reg. desk. > Cheers, > Muli behdad ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
