From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from apollo.le.ac.uk ([143.210.16.125]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <25221>; Thu, 4 May 2000 03:21:31 -0400 Received: from happy.star.le.ac.uk ([143.210.36.58]) by apollo.le.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #2) id 12mdrS-0003Gt-00 for rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu; Tue, 02 May 2000 15:41:18 +0100 Received: (qmail 5418 invoked from network); 2 May 2000 14:41:35 -0000 Received: from ltpcg.star.le.ac.uk (tjg@143.210.36.203) by happy.star.le.ac.uk with SMTP; 2 May 2000 14:41:35 -0000 To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: building rc on QNX4 In-Reply-To: <20000427193948.A15307@tango.texne.com> Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 10:41:13 -0400 From: Tim Goodwin Message-ID: > Also, I think that the name 'rc' is sometimes a too short one. On AIX, > for instance, it conflicts with the system startup script /etc/rc. Why is this any more a "conflict" than that between /usr/bin/passwd and /etc/passwd? OK, so /etc/rc is executable, which /etc/passwd isn't, but surely you don't ever want to run /etc/rc by hand? And even if you do, who puts /etc in their path? (I don't use AIX, by the way.) > I use Linux, so that's not a problem for me, nevertheless I would > really like that the default 'make install' stuff set up a symlink > to rc with a longer and more meaningful name, like 'rcsh'. Sounds a bit close to `tcsh' to me :-). But if that's what you want, just say sh configure '--program-suffix=sh' You can also use `--program-prefix' to tack things onto the beginning of the name, or `--program-transform-name' to do arbitrarily weird things to it. Tim.