On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Paul Fox
<pgf(_at_)foxharp(_dot_)boston(_dot_)ma(_dot_)us> wrote:
ken wrote:
> I've been thinking about writing a program to test out format strings,
> because the existing tools aren't quite good enough. Also, maybe it
will
> inspire some people to do some of the format programming themselves :-)
>
> But I have a dumb question: where should this program be installed?
>
> The current tools, "ap", "dp", and "fmtdump", all live in $(libdir). I
> understand doing this for backend programs designed to be called by
other
> programs, like post & mhl. But I never understood why those programs
> were installed there. Should this hypothetical test program be
installed
> in $(libdir), or should it be installed in $(bindir) like all of the
other
> nmh user-level executables?
i have no problem moving them. i checked on ubuntu (using
/usr/lib/command-not-found) and surprisingly, dp is the only one with
a name collision. (wouldn't you think all the two character names
would be gone by now?) so we should probably at least consider a
rename for that.
$ /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/command-not-found -- dp
The program 'dp' is currently not installed. You can install it by
typing:
sudo apt-get install speech-tools
$ /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/command-not-found -- ap
ap: command not found
$ /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/command-not-found -- fmtdump
No command 'fmtdump' found, did you mean:
Command 'mtdump' from package 'simh' (universe)
Command 'fdtdump' from package 'device-tree-compiler' (main)
Command 'ftdump' from package 'freetype2-demos' (universe)
fmtdump: command not found
$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS \n \l
I have at least one script that refers to $(mhparam libdir)/ap and I'm
sure other people do too. It would be best to hard or symlink the libdir
names into bindir for compatibility, at least for a major release.
Thanks
Jeff
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paul
>
> --Ken
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