OSLib 6.70 on RISC OS: tools called through Run$Path

Tony van der Hoff tony at mk-net.demon.co.uk
Sat Aug 7 12:35:03 BST 2004


Erik Groenhuis <e.groenhuis at xs4all.nl> wrote in message
<bc7152da4c.root at hop2.xs4all.nl>

[snip]
> I have to objections to this method.
         ^^ two?
> 
I agree, this is somewhat inelegant. Can't imagine why I did that; I think
it was a "temporary" fix that was forgotten about.

> My suggestion is that the Run$Path should be left unchanged, and that
> all calls to the generated tools in the makefiles should be preceded
> with 'OSLibBin:'. Examples: 'OSLibBin:rm' or 'Do OSLibBin:DefMod'.
> 
Indeed, this is the way to do it. 
I look forward to recieving your diffs when convenient ;)

> (Sidenote: the DefMod program gives no indication as to it's version,
> so it's very difficult to find out from which version of the sources a
> particular executable has been built).
>  
Try DefMod -help, which gives (amongst other things) the build date.


-- 
Tony van der Hoff
Buckinghamshire England



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