From: Mario Klebsch <Mario.Klebsch@braunschweig.netsurf.de>
Subject: Re: gnat on linux (strange problems and behaviour)
Date: 1999/08/22
Date: 1999-08-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <o7uop7.l72.ln@ds9.uucp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7pmmsv$ro4$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
>In article <37BEA492.413D9707@ebox.tninet.se>,
> Stefan Skoglund <stetson@ebox.tninet.se> wrote:
>> a software package should never require . in the PATH.
>> This is most definitely broken !!!
>Sorry I do not see what you are talking about. As Sam said,
>if you have a single user machine on which you control all
>software on the machine, and no one else uses it, then
>putting . in your path is not a problem.
But no piece of software should require or rely on having . in $PATH.
So when writing software it is best assuption about $PATH is, that
is contains only garbage, especially do not assume, that the directory
containing your program is included in $PATH.
73, Mario
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Mario Klebsch Mario.Klebsch@braunschweig.netsurf.de
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-11 0:00 gnat on linux (strange problems and behaviour) brian
1999-08-12 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-08-12 0:00 ` Clayton Weaver
1999-08-13 0:00 ` brian
1999-08-13 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-22 0:00 ` Mario Klebsch [this message]
1999-08-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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