Re: [Tack-devel] ACK_HOME and em_path

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On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 04:02:58PM +0100, David Given wrote:
> Filesystem layouts are pretty standard, actually, so precompiled binaries
> will be built to use /usr/{share,lib} or /usr/local/{share,lib} depending
> on whether the binaries are supplied by the distribution or third-party.
> (Or {share,libexec} for the BSDs.

1. Isn't it just the compiler driver program which needs a specific setup?
It seems even respect environment vars like ACKDIR (looking at ack-5.5).

2. It is totally straightforward to keep all the stuff in a single
file tree and let people put the tree where they like.

Who is thought to be the consumer of precompiled binaries?

Setting an environment variable is not a big challenge for
an aspiring C developer, or is it?

This would drop the requirement for the recipient to be a superuser
(superuser can as well set up an environment variable, even for
all the users, or put a two-line bourne shell wrapper into
the PATH in use on the machine).

What needs fixing?

Rune