[556] in athena10
Could an arch/i386_deb40/bin be created in the gnu locker for Athena 10.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Tue Oct 7 15:38:37 2008
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:37:05 -0400
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With people starting to use Athena 10, there is a screw case with the
gnu locker that needs to be remedied:
People like me have "add gnu" in their Athena .environment file.
Nautilus finds the tar program with a heuristic.
The /mit/gnu/arch/i386_rhel4/bin/ directory is put at the end of my
search path
by the heuristics in the add command.
So Nautilus runs an RHEL 4 gtar with incompatible command support.
The simplest fix is to put an empty arch/i386/deb40/bin directory in
the gnu locker so that the
Athena 10 add command won't put incompatible stuff in my path trying
to do the right thing in
the context of the gnu locker where it's now shown to be the wrong
thing.
-Bill
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