From: eli-schwartz <eli-schwartz@users.noreply.github.com>
To: ml@inbox.vuxu.org
Subject: Re: PATH duplications
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 03:50:41 +0100 [thread overview]
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New comment by eli-schwartz on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/18777#issuecomment-591751929
Comment:
Having non-existing directories in the PATH isn't such a problem, but having the same directory symlinked multiple times into the PATH can definitely be a problem.
Some programs will try to find resources based on the pathname they were invoked as, IIRC cmake is a common offender and if it expects to be in /usr/bin but gets called as /bin/cmake then you'll constantly get configure errors that e.g. the literal directory `/include` doesn't exist.
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2020-02-03 17:32 [ISSUE] " voidlinux-github
2020-02-13 17:47 ` voidlinux-github
2020-02-14 1:53 ` voidlinux-github
2020-02-15 17:53 ` beginner3456789
2020-02-25 20:58 ` loreb
2020-02-25 20:59 ` loreb
2020-02-25 22:48 ` beginner3456789
2020-02-26 23:16 ` [ISSUE] [CLOSED] " beginner3456789
2020-02-27 2:50 ` eli-schwartz [this message]
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