Re: [fink-core] [Fwd: Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing fink on 10.6]

[David R. M. <dr...@fi...>]

Oooo, unless it is happening in VirtPackage.pm someplace, or  
Bootstrap.pm, when trying to test the properties of gcc.

When does fink execute this gcc_fakething?  Only when compiling  
something, or does it even do it with something like "fink index"?

   -- Dave


On Oct 12, 2009, at 8:27 AM, David R. Morrison wrote:

> OK, that sounds like an error in the compiler_wrapper shell script  
> which implements the wrapper mechanism for 10.6's gcc.  The script  
> says
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /usr/bin/${0##*/} -arch i386 "$@"
>
> (or -arch x86_64 on 64-bit).  I don't speak shell, so I can't really  
> tell what this does.
>
> It is symlinked from executables named cc c++ c++-4.0 c++-4.2 gcc  
> gcc-4.0 gcc-4.2 g++ g++-4.0 g++-4.2.  That would seem to cover all  
> cases.
>
> Although I am still mystified about why this would be invoked by  
> something other than one of the items on that list.
>
>  -- Dave
>
>
> On Oct 12, 2009, at 8:20 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>
>> I've confirmed this behavior.
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: 	Re: [Fink-beginners] Installing fink on 10.6
>> Date: 	Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:42:52 +0200
>> From: 	Robert Schuster <rxs...@go...>
>> To: 	Alexander Hansen <ale...@gm...>
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>> You can reproduce it like this:
>>
>> create a file gcc_hello_fink with this content:
>> #!/bin/sh
>> echo "Hello from fink" >> hello_file
>>
>> make it executable and place it in /usr/bin then run any fink  
>> command.
>> It will always produce the file hello_file
>>
>>
>> Am 12.10.2009 um 14:41 schrieb Alexander Hansen:
>>
>>> Robert Schuster wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I found the problem:
>>>> fink runs everything it finds in the PATH that begins with gcc.
>>>> Because of that renaming gcc_select to gcc_auswahl didn't help. I
>>>> think it is not a good idea that fink runs everything that begins
>>>> with
>>>> gcc. In most cases files beginning with gcc are compilers, but that
>>>> is
>>>> not guaranteed and because fink has root privileges this can have
>>>> terrible results.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I'm not sure that this is exactly what happened--I'm not able to
>>> reproduce it, anyway.  If that is indeed what happens, then fink  
>>> could
>>> be modified to avoid this.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, we make no claims that Fink will work properly if
>>> you
>>> introduce executables into the system area that aren't part of the  
>>> OS.
>>> fink resets the PATH when it operates, so executables that are in,  
>>> for
>>> example, $HOME/bin, won't be visible.
>>
>>
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