Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] user-definable tail and grep

[Joe Green]

Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:

> > Users can change the tools that they use.  Say my sysadmin has installed
> > the gnu utils in /opt/gnu (as cp, date, getopt etc) and I don't want to
> > use them by default by changing my path, but know that quilt relies on
> > them... I can 'export DATE=/opt/gnu/bin/date', and then I notice that
> > /opt/gnu/bin/getopt isn't a new enough version, so I build the latest in
> > my home directory and 'export GETOPT=$HOME/bin/getopt'.
> >    
> Then you'd have to set up your environment specifically for quilt. A weird 
> idea.
>  
Setting them in .quiltrc could be supported.  That would be a way to use 
specific versions just for quilt.

If set in the global environment, the names should probably be 
quilt-specific (e.g., QUILT_UTIL_GETOPT).

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Joe Green <address@hidden>
MontaVista Software, Inc.