Question about enable-absolute-paths option

2018-09-01 Thread Shengjing Zhu
Hi, I intend to package skarnet softwares in Debian. When packaging execline, I find it produces a lot of binaries with common names. Thus I want to put them in path like /usr/lib/execline/. As I understand from the output of `./configure --help`, the `--enable-absolute-paths` should work for this

Re: Question about enable-absolute-paths option

2018-09-01 Thread Laurent Bercot
I intend to package skarnet softwares in Debian. When packaging execline, I find it produces a lot of binaries with common names. Thus I want to put them in path like /usr/lib/execline/. Do not do this. Several programs, including s6 and s6-rc, rely on execline binaries to be in their PATH. Th

Re: Question about enable-absolute-paths option

2018-09-01 Thread Shengjing Zhu
Hi, On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 3:56 AM Laurent Bercot wrote: > Do not do this. > Several programs, including s6 and s6-rc, rely on execline binaries > to be in their PATH. They will not work if you segregate execline > binaries. Thanks for this note, I haven't looked at these packages. At first