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Author: Gerald Stoller
Date: 27-01-02 11:25
You wrote "I determined this path by inspecting /var/db/pkg/dnetc-2.8010.462_1,1/+CONTENTS. Because it starts with a /, the ports system will know this is the name of a file, not an executable. Therefore, it will not search your $PATH. " All files, even executable ones, have names that start with a / , for the ports system to "know" that files with such names are not executable may be some restriction placed on users of the ports system, but it is not an inherent condition of a UNIX-like system. Once a / is involved in the name of the first file on a command line, the PATH is not searched.
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Author: Dan Langille
Date: 27-01-02 19:19
Gerald Stoller wrote:
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> You wrote "I determined this path by inspecting
> /var/db/pkg/dnetc-2.8010.462_1,1/+CONTENTS. Because it starts
> with a /, the ports system will know this is the name of a
> file, not an executable. Therefore, it will not search your
> $PATH. "
Yes, I did write that.
> All files, even executable ones, have names that
> start with a / , for the ports system to "know" that files
> with such names are not executable may be some restriction
> placed on users of the ports system, but it is not an
> inherent condition of a UNIX-like system.
Note: I did not say system. I said "the ports system". I maintain my statement is correct. However, I did not state where I obtained this information. Sorry about that. The following extract is from /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
# FETCH_DEPENDS - A list of "path:dir[:target]" tuples of other ports this
# package depends in the "fetch" stage. "path" is the
# name of a file if it starts with a slash (/), an
# executable otherwise. make will test for the
# existence (if it is a full pathname) or search for
# it in your $PATH (if it is an executable) and go
# into "dir" to do a "make all install" if it's not
# found. If the third field ("target") exists, it will
> Once a / is
> involved in the name of the first file on a command line,
> the PATH is not searched.
I think we are talking about two different things here.
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