Re: [Fink-devel] fileutils missing dep on libgettext3-shlibs kills /usr/bin/gcc

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

Matthew Sachs wrote:
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> This applies to many more scripts on the system than just gcc_select,  
> and I don't believe that any of them set their own PATH.  gcc_select  

Looking at some of the examples, one sees indeed very different levels 
of careful programming. Some of the scripts go to great lengths to 
always use the complete path like /bin/rm etc, others are pretty sloppy. 
Some are at the limit of the ridiculous like apachectl which uses 
"which" in a sh script, with rather unpredictable outcome.

And one should add that the fact that we need to run gcc_select from 
fink at all is caused by a bug in the concept of gcc_select. It fiddles 
with things that other system tools consider immutable.

> isn't particularly vital or dangerous -- if it gets things wrong,  worst 
> case you need to reinstall XCode.

I would consider this rather serious, in particular when it can happen 
out of the blue sky, just because some library is temporarily not what 
or where it is supposed to be.

-- 
Martin