On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 07:55 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 23:45 +0000, Paul wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm currently working on getting z88dk to be architecture neutral, but > > have found a problem in the wholesale build process which I have a > > workaround for in the spec file. > > > > However, I've found that if I alter the build.sh file to include the > > lines > > > > PATH=`pwd`/bin:$PATH > > export PATH > > > > the workaround can be avoided. > > > > If I was to include that in a large patch, would it cause any sort of > > problems to the buildsys. I am always wary of altering environment > > variables, so would like some guidance on this. > > I don't see a problem with that, particularly if you know that `pwd` is > always somewhere sane when build.sh is invoked. Agreed, however a package requiring `pwd`/bin has to be considered having severe issues (read: it's configuration is severely bugged), upstream should address. Therefore, rpm specs I'd recommend to accompany such PATH with a comment. Ralf -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
