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RE: astksh review


On Mon, 19 May 2003, Karsten Fleischer wrote:

> > Sorry I missed this (my backlog is HUGE! :-)
> > 
> > I created the ksh symlink so users wouldn't have to edit 
> > their shebang 
> > lines to point to `/bin/pdksh' but now we have the proper ksh 
> > (available) 
> > I suppose I could get rid of it. What's the feeling?
> > 
> > We could do one of
> > 
> >   1. Remove the ksh symlink from the pdksh package.
> >   2. Rename ksh.exe (in astksh) to astksh.exe and have a ksh 
> > symlink to
> >      astksh.exe
> 
> The proper name would be ksh93.exe.

Oops, that's what I meant. :-)

> >   3. Maybe only two options. :-)
> > 
> > these?
> 
> I don't want to manually intervene the astksh package generation
> process. It's all done by the package command and nmake.
> The ast-ksh.pkg nmakefile defines the rules for astksh packaging.
> There's a :INSTALL: operator that can be used to rename ksh for cygwin
> packages, so the :INSTALL: line should read:
> 
> 	bin/ksh93 :INSTALL: bin/ksh
> 
> There's currently no :LINK: operator. I'll define one so that symlinks
> in cygwin packages can be automically generated.
> I already wrote a :POSTINSTALL: operator that can be used to define the
> contents of a postinstall script.
> I could check for existance of a ksh symlink in the postinstall script
> and create it if it's missing.
> 
> Karsten

OK, so what we do is check for the existence of a ksh symlink, if it 
exists we leave it alone, if it doesn't we create it (?).

Elfyn

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Elfyn McBratney
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