Re: sourcenav deb dir layout

[Eray Ozkural <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>]

"Mike A. Harris" wrote:
> 
> The funny thing though, is Source Navigator doesn't follow Red
> Hat conventions of file locations either.  ;o)  Red Hat 7.0 of
> course approaches FHS compliance, and both debian and Red Hat are
> becoming similar in this manner.
> 

Yeah, but deb packages strictly follow FHS compliance. It's a bug
if they don't. :)

> It turns out, source nav installs grep/egrep/fgrep and a slew of
> other utils into /usr/local/bin when built for /usr/local, and
> /usr/local was in the path first, so the sourcenav utils got used
> instead of /bin/grep, etc..  The problem is that the SourceNav
> grep and friends do not support all grep commandline options.  It
> took me a few days to figure this out..  ;o)
> 

burgh, a hacked grep? oh, no. i hadn't noticed that.

> To the fellow creating the deb packages, could you post your deb
> build files, (not the packages, just the deb equiv of .spec
> files) to me privately.  I'll share my .spec with you as well if
> you like.
> 

All right, I'm approaching a real package. just a couple of more
fixes, and I'm sending them to you.

> Perhaps we could take some of the changes that will be necessary
> in the build sections of our efforts and incorporate them
> directly into the Sourcenav makefiles, etc. and send patches in?
> 

Yep, I'm always trying to make a minimal number of changes (so
I can maintain them), I'll send you the changes as well.


Cheers,

-- 
Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo