Subject: Overriding _PATH_mumble
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/03/2000 23:51:39
Hubert inquired about pulling up rev 1.5 usr.bin/xinstall/pathnames.h,
viz. "Allow overriding _PATH_STRIP":

Index: pathnames.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/basesrc/usr.bin/xinstall/pathnames.h,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.4 -r1.5
--- pathnames.h	1997/12/30 22:31:17	1.4
+++ pathnames.h	2000/09/04 02:45:33	1.5
@@ -35,4 +35,6 @@
  *	@(#)pathnames.h	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
  */
 
+#ifndef _PATH_STRIP
 #define	_PATH_STRIP	"/usr/bin/strip"
+#endif

Very few other pathnames.h files allow this.

Is this the right thing? Should they all be converted
en masse?

--jhawk