Re: env

2003-01-05 Thread Eric Gillespie
and MHPATH. It would be more damaging to deviate from this practice. -- Eric Gillespie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build a fire for a man, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. -Terry Pratchett

Re: The continuing install-mh saga

2002-11-19 Thread Eric Gillespie
it out whenever I see it. Not to show off, but to make the code easier to deal with. If you want something to do as far as duplication reduction goes, check out mhbuildsbr.c and mhparse.c. Have a barf bag handy. -- Eric Gillespie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build a fire for a man, and he'll be warm

Re: Working on the install-mh change questions

2002-11-18 Thread Eric Gillespie
out how they busted the home dir variable. That is why, unless you are writing super-tight-must-be-the-best-performing-code-ever applications (which mh is not), it is necessary always to make a copy of the static buffer pointed to by the return values of such functions. -- Eric Gillespie * [EMAIL

Re: Another working on the install-mh change question

2002-11-18 Thread Eric Gillespie
profile. This seems wrong to me. Should I fix it? Yes. -- Eric Gillespie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build a fire for a man, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. -Terry Pratchett

Re: install-mh location

2002-11-18 Thread Eric Gillespie
have one the link goes in libexecdir. -- Eric Gillespie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build a fire for a man, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. -Terry Pratchett

Re: Working on the install-mh change questions

2002-11-18 Thread Eric Gillespie
important standards don't allow for it. Bleh, i hope that made sense. sleep... -- Eric Gillespie * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build a fire for a man, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. -Terry Pratchett

Re: Working on the install-mh change questions

2002-11-18 Thread Eric Gillespie
Eric Gillespie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just checked Harbison Steele, and according to them ISO C does not allow calls to putenv to modify the getenv return value, and as seen above, nor does POSIX (though the XSI extension does). Maybe i'm just not very imaginative at this late hour